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1.3
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
•
s
• V
1-2 Maxtor Atlas 15K
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
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