Terminology And Conventions - Maxtor QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA Product Manual

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TERMINOLOGY 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
• Bels
• bpi
• DA
• dB
• dBA
• DPS
• ECC
• Gbit/s
• GB
• G/rms
• Hz
• Kfci
• KB
• LSB
• mA
• MB
• Mb/s
• MB/s
• MHz
• ms
• MSB
• mV
• ns
• PC
• SATA
• tpi
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Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
Advanced Technology Attachment
sound power units
bits per inch
Double Amplitude (represents pk-pk shaker displacement
decibels
decibels, A weighted
Data Protection System
Error Correcting Code
gigabits per second
gigabyte
root means square
hertz
thousands of flux changes per inch
kilobytes
Least Significant Bit
milliamperes
Megabytes (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes when referring to disk
transfer rates or storage capacities and 1,048,576 bytes in all
other cases)
Megabits per second
Megabytes per second
Megahertz
milliseconds
Most Significant Bit
millivolts
nanoseconds
Personal Computer
Serial ATA Interface
tracks per inch
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