3 terminology and conventions – Maxtor 10K V User Manual
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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
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
• ms
microseconds
• V
volts