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8.0Terms and Acronyms
This document incorporates many industry- and
Table 17. | Glossary of Terms and Acronyms | ||
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ATA |
| Advanced Technology Attachment | |
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ATAPI |
| Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface | |
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BER |
| Bit error rate, or percentage of bits that have errors relative to the total number of bits | |
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BIOS |
| Basic Input / Output System | |
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Chipset |
| A term used to define a collection of integrated components required to make a PC | |
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Device Initiated Link Power | The ability of the device to request SATA link power state changes. | ||
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DIPM |
| Device Initiated Power Management (SATA hard disk drive) | |
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DMA |
| Direct Memory Access | |
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DRAM |
| Dynamic Random Access Memory | |
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EXT |
| Extended | |
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FP |
| First Party | |
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HCI |
| Host Controller Interface | |
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HCT |
| Hardware Compatibility Test | |
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HDD |
| Hard Disk Drive | |
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Host Initiated Link Power | The ability of the host to request SATA link power state changes. | ||
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Hot Plug |
| A term used to describe the removal or insertion of a SATA hard drive when the system is | |
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iMSM |
| The Intel Matrix Storage Manager device driver and associated system software. | |
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LBA |
| Logical Block Address | |
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LPM |
| Link Power Management: the ability of the SATA link layer to enter one of two lower power | |
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MTBF |
| Mean time between failure | |
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Native Command Queuing (NCQ) | The ability of the SATA hard drive to | ||
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NOP |
| No Operation | |
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NTFS |
| NT File System | |
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OEM |
| Original Equipment Manufacturer | |
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OS |
| Operating System | |
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Port |
| The point at which a SATA drive physically connects to the SATA controller. | |
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RAID |
| Redundant Array of Independent Disks | |
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RMS |
| Root Mean Squared | |
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