Dell PowerEdge XK946 Hardware Owner's Manual page 177

A — Milliampere-hour(s).
M H
M — Megabit(s); 1,048,576 bits.
B
MB — Megabyte(s); 1,048,576 bytes. However, when referring to hard-drive capacity,
the term is often rounded to mean 1,000,000 bytes.
M — Megabits per second.
B P S
MB — Megabytes per second.
P S
MB R — Master boot record.
M E M O R Y A D D R E S S
number, in the system's RAM.
M E M O R Y M O D U L E
the system board.
— An area in your system that stores basic system data. A system can
M E M O R Y
contain several different forms of memory, such as integrated memory (ROM and
RAM) and add-in memory modules (DIMMs).
MH — Megahertz.
Z
— A type of data redundancy in which a set of physical drives stores data
M I R R O R I N G
and one or more sets of additional drives stores duplicate copies of the data. Mirroring
functionality is provided by software. See also guarding, integrated mirroring, striping,
and RAID.
— Millimeter(s).
M M
— See system board.
M O T H E R B O A R D
— Millisecond(s).
M S
MS - DO S® — Microsoft Disk Operating System.
MT / — Million transfers per second.
S
NAS — Network Attached Storage. NAS is one of the concepts used for
implementing shared storage on a network. NAS systems have their own operating
systems, integrated hardware, and software that are optimized to serve specific storage
needs.
NIC — Network interface controller. A device that is installed or integrated in a
system to allow connection to a network.
NMI — Nonmaskable interrupt. A device sends an NMI to signal the processor about
hardware errors.
— Nanosecond(s).
N S
N TF S — The NT File System option in the Windows 2000 operating system.
— A specific location, usually expressed as a hexadecimal
— A small circuit board containing DRAM chips that connects to
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