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Glossary of Terms Show Part Numbers Hide Part Numbers 5500970, 5501505, 5501506, 5501507, 5501508, 5501509, 5501510, 5501511, 5501538, 5501539,
5501729, 5501732, 5501733, 5501736, 5501737, 5501738, 5501797, 5501798, 5501799, 5501800,
5501801, 5501806, 5502188, 5502189, 5502190, 5502277 Following is a glossary of terms used with IBM SCSI hard drives.
| Term |
Meaning |
| Kbpi |
Kilobits per inch (1,000 bits per inch) |
| Mbps |
Megabits per second (1,000,000 bits per second) |
| GB |
Gigabyte (1,000,000,000 bytes) |
| MB |
Megabyte (1,000,000 bytes) |
| KB |
Kilobyte (1,000 bytes unless otherwise specified; 1,024 bytes actual) |
| 32 KB |
32 × 1,024 bytes |
| 64 KB |
64 × 1,024 bytes |
| Mb/sq.in |
Megabits per square inch (1,000,000 bits per square inch) |
| MLC |
Machine Level Control |
| PFA |
Predictive Failure Analysis (Trademark of IBM Corp.) |
| S.M.A.R.T. |
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology |
| ADM |
Automatic Drive Maintenance |
| SCAM |
SCSI Configured AutoMatically |
| SE |
Single-Ended SCSI |
| LVD |
Low Voltage Differential |
| FC-AL |
Fiber Channel - Arbitrated Loop |
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