Viking PSFEM1xxxGQxxx manual Glossary, Term Definition

7 Glossary

This document incorporates many industry and device specific words. The following list defines a variety of these terms and acronyms.

Term

Definition

ATA	Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAPI	Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
	Bit error rate, or percentage of bits that have errors relative to the total number of bits
BER	received
	Device Initiated Link Power Management. The ability of the device to request SATA link
DIPM	power state changes.
DMA	Direct Memory Access
eMLC	Enterprise Multi-Level Cell
EXT	Extended
FP	First Party
GB	Giga-byte defined as 1x109 bytes
HDD	Hard Disk Drive
	A term used to describe the removal or insertion of a SATA storage drive when the
Hot Plug	system is powered on.
IOPS	Input output operations per second
LBA	Logical Block Address
MB	Mega-bytes defined as 1x106 bytes
MLC	Multi-Level Cell
MTBF	Mean Time Between Failures
	Native Command Queuing. The ability of the SATA hard drive to queue and re-order
NCQ	commands to maximize execution efficiency.
NOP	No Operation
OS	Operating System
Port	The point at which a SATA drive physically connects to the SATA controller.
RMS	Root Mean Squared
RPM	Revolutions Per Minute
SAS	Serial Attached SCSI
SATA	Serial ATA
SFF	Small Form Factor
SLC	Single Level Cell
	Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology: an open standard for developing
	hard drives and software systems that automatically monitors a hard drive’s health and
S.M.A.R.T.	reports potential problems.
SSD	Solid-State Drive

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