Ciprico 4105 Series TABLE G-1. Acronyms or Terminology, Glossary, Acronym or, Acronym Description

Glossary MediaVault 4105 User Manual

TABLE G-1.Acronyms or Terminology.

Acronym or
Word	Acronym Description	Definition
logical drive		One or more disk drives grouped together and which
		appear as a single device to an operating system.
mirroring		The duplication of data for backup, or a method of
		distributing network data traffic among several
		computers with identical (redundant) data.
NTFS	New Technology File System	The file system used by the Microsoft Windows
		NT/2000/XP operating systems.
parity		A type of data protection that recreates the data of
		failed disk drive.
port		A connection point to the RAID controller, disk drive,
		enclosure, or another device.
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent	A method for storing the same data in different places
	Drives	on multiple hard disks (except for RAID 0, which does
		not have redundancy).
RTR	Real Time RAID	Allows RAID data to be identified, and for disk failures
		to be corrected, on the fly and without interrupting
		real-time data flow.
SMART	Self-Monitoring Analysis and	A set of advanced diagnostics that monitor the
	Reporting Technology	internal operations of disk drives and provide early
		warning of any potential problems
striping		The process of partitioning each drive's storage
		space into units ranging from a sector (512K) up to
		several megabytes. Striping interleaves bytes or
		groups of bytes across multiple drives, so more than
		one disk is reading and writing simultaneously.

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