3 terminology and conventions, 3 terminology and conventions -2 – Maxtor ATLAS 10K III User Manual

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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

application-specific integrated circuit

• Kbpi

thousands of bits per inch

• dB

decibels

• dBA

decibels, A weighted

• ECC

error correcting code

• Kfci

thousands of flux changes per inch

• Gbit

gigabit

• GB

gigabyte

• Hz

hertz

• KB

kilobytes

• LSB

least significant bit

• LVDS

low voltage differential SCSI

• mA milliamperes

• MB

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)

• Mbit/s

megabits per second

• MB/s

megabytes per second

• MHz

megahertz

• ms milliseconds

• MSB

most significant bit

• mV

millivolts

• ns

nanoseconds

• SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

• tpi

tracks per inch

µ

s

microseconds

• V

volts

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