Glossary | MediaVault 4440 User Manual |
TABLE G-1. Acronyms or Terminology.
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logical drive |
| One or more disk drives grouped together and which |
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| appear as a single device to an operating system. |
mirroring |
| The duplication of data for backup, or a method of |
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| distributing network data traffic among several |
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| computers with identical (redundant) data. |
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NTFS | New Technology File System | The file system used by the Microsoft Windows |
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| NT/2000/XP operating systems. |
parity |
| A type of data protection that recreates the data of |
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| failed disk drive. |
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port |
| A connection point to the RAID controller, disk drive, |
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| enclosure, or another device. |
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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 |
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| not have redundancy). |
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RTR | Real Time RAID | Allows RAID data to be identified, and for disk failures |
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| to be corrected, on the fly and without interrupting |
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SMART | A set of advanced diagnostics that monitor the | |
| Reporting Technology | internal operations of disk drives and provide early |
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| warning of any potential problems |
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striping |
| The process of partitioning each drive's storage |
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| space into units ranging from a sector (512K) up to |
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| several megabytes. Striping interleaves bytes or |
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| groups of bytes across multiple drives, so more than |
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| one disk is reading and writing simultaneously. |
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