Glossary - Hitachi G1000 Hardware Manual

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10 Gb
10 gigabit Ethernet computer networking standard, with a nominal data
rate of 10 Gbps, 10 times as fast as gigabit ethernet.
A
arbitrated loop (AL)
Arbitrated loop, also known as FC-AL, is a Fibre Channel topology in which
devices are connected in a one-way loop fashion in a ring topology. Up to
127 devices may be attached in the loop, but only two can communicate
at the same time. Arbitrated loop is an alternative to Fibre Channel
switches.
array group
A set of drives in a storage system that have the same capacity and are
treated as one RAID unit. An array group contains user data and parity
information, which ensures user data integrity in the event of a disk drive
failure in the array group.
B
bps
bits per second. The standard measure of data transmission speeds.
C
cache
A set of RAM (Random Access Memory) modules used to store data
temporarily.
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