Glossary - Viking Technology VPFEM4128GSCBMTL Manual

7 Glossary

This document incorporates many industry and device-specific words. Use the
following list to define a variety of terms and acronyms.
Term
ATA
ATAPI
BER
DIPM
DMA
eMLC
EXT
FP
GB
HDD
Hot Plug
IOPS
LBA
MB
MLC
MTBF
NCQ
NOP
OS
Port
RMS
RPM
SAS
SATA
SFF
SLC
S.M.A.R.T.
SSD
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Bit error rate, or percentage of bits that have errors relative to the total number of bits
received
Device Initiated Link Power Management. The ability of the device to request SATA link
power state changes.
Direct Memory Access
Enterprise Multi-Level Cell
Extended
First Party
Giga-byte defined as 1x10
Hard Disk Drive
A term used to describe the removal or insertion of a SATA storage drive when the
system is powered on.
Input output operations per second
Logical Block Address
Mega-bytes defined as 1x10
Multi-Level Cell
Mean Time Between Failures
Native Command Queuing. The ability of the SATA hard drive to queue and re-order
commands to maximize execution efficiency.
No Operation
Operating System
The point at which a SATA drive physically connects to the SATA controller.
Root Mean Squared
Revolutions Per Minute
Serial Attached SCSI
Serial ATA
Small Form Factor
Single Level Cell
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology: an open standard for developing
hard drives and software systems that automatically monitors a hard drive's health and
reports potential problems.
Solid-State Drive
Definition
9
bytes
6
bytes
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