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A kilobyte is a unit of measure equal to 1 thousand (1024) bytes.
KB
Light Emitting Diode.
LED
Laser Guided Magnetic Recording.
LGMR
Low Voltage Differential signalling is an electrical signalling system that
LVD
can run at high speeds over cheap, twisted-pair copper cables.
A Micrometer is an SI unit of length. It is defined as one millionth of a metre
µM
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(1 × 10 m), equivalent to one thousandth of a millimeter.
Megabyte
MB
SI — 1 000 000 bytes or 10
definition used by telecommunications engineers and storage manufacturers.
1 048 576 bytes - 1024
and computer programming, when talking about the size of files or computer
memory. The reason is that computers use the binary numeral system internally.
Note: For the purpose of this document we are using SI.
Magneto Resistive Cluster Heads. A cluster of small, cost-effective
MRC Heads
Magneto Resistive (MR) media heads packed densely together.
A Millisecond is equal to one thousandth of a second.
ms
Multi-mode Single-Ended is a signaling alternative for multi-mode SCSI
MSE
devices that allows multi-mode SCSI devices to operate while SE SCSI devices are
present on the bus.
Mean Time Between Failures.
MTBF
The capacity of a given media product in its basic recording
Native Capacity
format (without the use of data compression).
Refers to the uncompressed storage capacity of a media subsystem.
Native Mode
(See Native Capacity.)
In referring to a Fibre Channel network, a node is any device attached to
Node
the network.
A method of generating redundant information that can be used to detect
Parity
errors in stored or transmitted data.
A device added to a system as a complement to the basic central
Peripheral
processing unit (CPU), such as a disk drive, tape drive, or printer.
6
bytes. This is the International System of Units (SI)
2 20
, or 2 . This definition is often used in computer science
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