Terminology And Conventions - Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 250GB AT 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
• bpi
• DA
• dB
• dBA
• DPS
• SPS
• ECC
• Kfci
• Hz
• KB
• LSB
• mA
• MB
• Mb/s
• MB/s
• MHz
• ms
• MSB
• mV
• ns
• SATA
• tpi
• µs
• V
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Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250GB AT
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
Advanced Technology Attachment
bits per inch
Double Amplitude(represents pk-pk shaker
displacement)
decibels
decibels, A weighted
Data Protection System
Shock Protection System
Error Correcting Code
thousands of flux changes per inch
Hertz
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
Serial ATA Interface
tracks per inch
microseconds
Volts
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