Channel | An electrical path for the transfer of data and control information between |
| a disk and a disk controller. |
Consistency | An examination of the disk system to determine whether all conditions |
Check | are valid for the specified configuration (such as parity.) |
Cold Swap | A cold swap requires that you turn the power off before replacing a |
| defective disk drive in a disk subsystem. |
Data Transfer | The amount of data per unit time moved through a channel. For disk I/O, |
Capacity | data transfer capacity (bandwidth) is expressed in megabytes per second |
| (Mbytes/s). |
Degraded | Used to describe a disk drive that has become |
| decreased in performance. |
Disk | A nonvolatile, randomly addressable, rewritable mass storage device, |
| including both rotating magnetic and optical disks and |
| or nonvolatile electronic storage elements. It does not include specialized |
| devices such as |
| it include |
| dedicated portion of a host computer volatile random access memory. |
Disk Array | A collection of disks from one or more disk subsystems combined with |
| array management software. The software controls the disks and |
| presents them to the array operating environment as one or more virtual |
| disks. |
Disk Duplexing | A variation on disk mirroring in which a second disk adapter or host |
| adapter and redundant disk drives are present. |
Disk Mirroring | Writing duplicate data to more than one (usually two) disk drives to |
| protect against data loss in the event of device failure. Disk mirroring is |
| a common feature of RAID systems. |
Disk Spanning | Disk spanning allows multiple disk drives to function like one big drive. |
| Spanning overcomes lack of disk space and simplifies storage |
| management by combining existing resources or adding relatively |
| inexpensive resources. For example, four 36 Gbyte disk drives can be |
| combined to appear to the operating system as one single 144 Gbyte |
| drive. See also Array Spanning and Spanning. |
Disk Striping | A type of disk array mapping. Consecutive stripes of data are mapped |
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