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segment
Disk drive or portion of a disk drive used to create a logical device. A
disk can include RAID segments and available segments. A RAID
segment is part of a logical device; it can be used by only one logical
device at a time. Available segments can be used to define a new logical
device. If the disk is not part of any logical device, the entire disk is an
available segment.
Serial ATA (SATA)
A successor to ATA that uses a serial, instead of parallel, interface.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
A successor to SCSI that uses a serial, instead of parallel, interface.
simple volume
A volume made up of disk space from a single disk. It can consist of a
single region on a disk or concatenated, multiple regions of the same
disk.
single-level array
Array created from one or more partitions. See also volume , spanned
volume , See also mirrored array/mirroring and See also mirrored array/
mirroring and See also mirrored array/mirroring and ... , and RAID 1
Arrays on page 92 .
spanned volume
A simple volume that spans two or more drives.
spare
See hotspare .
stripe
Contiguous set of data distributed across all the disks in an array. A
striped array distributes data evenly across all members in equal-sized
sections called stripes.
stripe size
The amount of data in each section of a striped array.
striped array
See See also mirrored array/mirroring and See also mirrored array/
mirroring and See also mirrored array/mirroring and ... .