system board and storage devices.
SCSI — Small computer system interface. An I/O bus interface with faster data transmission rates than standard ports.
SD card — Secure digital flash memory card.
SDRAM — Synchronous dynamic
sec — Second(s).
serial port — A legacy I/O port with a
service tag — A bar code label on the system used to identify it when you call Dell for technical support.
SMART —
SMP — Symmetric multiprocessing. Used to describe a system that has two or more processors connected via a
SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol. A standard interface that allows a network manager to remotely monitor and manage workstations.
striping — Disk striping writes data across three or more disks in an array, but only uses a portion of the space on each disk. The amount of space used by a "stripe" is the same on each disk used. A virtual disk may use several stripes on the same set of disks in an array. See also guarding, mirroring, and RAID.
SVGA — Super video graphics array. VGA and SVGA are video standards for video adapters with greater resolution and color display capabilities than previous standards.
system board — As the main circuit board, the system board usually contains most of your system’s integral components, such as the processor(s), RAM, controllers for peripherals, and various ROM chips.
system configuration information — Data stored in memory that tells a system what hardware is installed and how the system should be configured for operation.
system memory — See RAM.
System Setup program — A
TCP/IP — Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
termination — Some devices (such as the last device at each end of a SCSI cable)
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