1.3TERMINOLOGY AND CONVENTIONS
In the Glossary at the back of this manual, you can find definitions for many of the terms used in this manual. In addition, the following abbreviations are used in this manual:
• | ASIC | |
• | Kbpi | thousands of bits per inch |
• | dB | decibels |
• | dBA | decibels, A weighted |
• | ECC | error correcting code |
• | Kfci | thousands of flux changes per inch |
• | Gbit | gigabit |
• | GB | gigabyte |
• | Hz | hertz |
• | KB | kilobytes |
• | LSB | least significant bit |
• | LVDS | low voltage differential SCSI |
• | mA | milliamperes |
• | MB | megabytes (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes when referring to disk |
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| transfer rates or storage capacities and 1,048,576 bytes in all |
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| other cases) |
• | Mbit/s | megabits per second |
• | MB/s | megabytes per second |
• | MHz | megahertz |
• | ms | milliseconds |
• | MSB | most significant bit |
• | mV | millivolts |
• | ns | nanoseconds |
• | SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
• | tpi | tracks per inch |
• | ms | microseconds |
• | V | volts |