Terms And Acronyms - Intel Solid-State Drive 320 Series Product Specification

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Terms and Acronyms

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Table 17. Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
Term
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
DAS Device Activity Signal
DIPM Device Initiated Power Management
DMA Direct Memory Access
ECC Error Correction Code
EXT Extended
FPDMA First Party Direct Memory Access
Gigabyte
GB
Note: The total usable capacity of the SSD may be less than the total physical capacity because a
small portion of the capacity is used for NAND flash management and maintenance purposes.
HDD Hard Disk Drive
I/O Input/Output
IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second
ISO International Standards Organization
KB Kilobyte
LBA Logical Block Address
MB Megabyte
MLC Multi-level Cell
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
NCQ Native Command Queuing
NOP No Operation
PIO Programmed Input/Output
RDT Reliability Demonstration Test
RMS Root Mean Squared
RoHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SCT SMART Command Transport
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
SMART
An open standard for developing hard drives and software systems that automatically monitors the
health of a drive and reports potential problems.
SSD Solid-State Drive
TYP Typical
UBER Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate
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Order Number: 325152-002US
September 2011