Terminology And Conventions - Maxtor Atlas 10K V 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
• Kbpi
• dB
• dBA
• ECC
• Kfci
• Gbit
• GB
• Hz
• KB
• LSB
• LVDS
• mA
• MB
• Mbit/s
• MB/s
• MHz
• ms
• MSB
• mV
• ns
• SCSI
• tpi
• ms
• V
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application-specific integrated circuit
thousands of bits per inch
decibels
decibels, A weighted
error correcting code
thousands of flux changes per inch
gigabit
gigabyte
hertz
kilobytes
least significant bit
low voltage differential SCSI
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
Small Computer System Interface
tracks per inch
microseconds
volts