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Terms and Acronyms
This document incorporates many industry- and device-specific words. Use the
following list to define a variety of terms and acronyms.
Table 18.
Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
Term
ATA
ATAPI
BER
BIOS
Chipset
Device Initiated Link Power
Management (DIPM)
DIPM
DMA
DRAM
EXT
FP
GB
HCI
HCT
HDD
Host Initiated Link Power
Management
Hot Plug
IOPS
iMSM
LBA
LPM
MB
MP
MTBF
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
NOP
NTFS
OEM
OS
Port
RAID
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Advanced Technology Attachment
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
Bit error rate, or percentage of bits that have errors relative to the total number of bits
received
Basic Input / Output System
A term used to define a collection of integrated components required to make a PC
function.
The ability of the device to request SATA link power state changes.
Device Initiated Power Management (SATA hard disk drive)
Direct Memory Access
Dynamic Random Access Memory
Extended
First Party
9
Giga-byte defined as 1x10
bytes
Host Controller Interface
Hardware Compatibility Test
Hard Disk Drive
The ability of the host to request SATA link power state changes.
A term used to describe the removal or insertion of a SATA hard drive when the system is
powered on.
Input output operations per second
The Intel Matrix Storage Manager device driver and associated system software.
Logical Block Address
Link Power Management: the ability of the SATA link layer to enter one of two lower power
consuming states, partial and slumber
6
Mega-bytes defined as 1x10
Multi-Processor
Mean time between failure
The ability of the SATA hard drive to re-order commands in order to maximize the
efficiency of gathering data from the platters.
No Operation
NT File System
Original Equipment Manufacturer
Operating System
The point at which a SATA drive physically connects to the SATA controller.
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
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