Maxtor 80-160GB manual Terminology and Conventions, Ata

Introduction

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:

– ASIC	Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
– ATA	Advanced Technology Attachment
– Bels	sound power units
– bpi	bits per inch
– DA	Double Amplitude (represents pk-pk shaker displacement)
– dB	decibels
– dBA	decibels, A weighted
– DPS	Data Protection System
– ECC	Error Correcting Code
– G/rms	root means square
– Hz	hertz
– kfci	thousands of flux changes per inch
– KB	kilobytes
– LSB	Least Significant Bit
– mA	milliamperes
– MB	Megabytes (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes when referring to disk
	transfer rates or storage capacities and 1,048,576 bytes in all
	other cases)
– Mb/s	Megabits per second
– MB/s	Megabytes per second
– MHz	Megahertz
– ms	milliseconds
– MSB	Most Significant Bit
– mV	millivolts
– ns	nanoseconds
– PC	Personal Computer
– SATA	Serial ATA Interface
– tpi	tracks per inch
– µs	microseconds
– V	Volts

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