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 in this manual:
• | ASIC | |
• | ATA | Advanced Technology Attachment |
• | Bels | sound power units |
• | bpi | bits per inch |
• | DA | Double Amplitude (represents |
• | dB | decibels |
• | dBA | decibels, A weighted |
• | DPS | Data Protection System |
• | ECC | Error Correcting Code |
• | Gbit/s | gigabits per second |
• | GB | gigabyte |
• | 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 |
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| transfer rates or storage capacities and 1,048,576 bytes in all |
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| 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 |