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Appendix - B: Glossary

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A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 8. Appendix - B: Glossary Array - Collection of multiple physical Hard Disk Drives to form a single logical volume BBU - Battery Backup Unit BIOS - Basic Input Output System Cluster - Multi-initiator Environment with MSCS operating environment HBA - Host Bus Adapter (non-RAID controllers) HDD - Hard Disk Drive Hot Plug - Insertion or removal of device without the need to quiescent I/Os PERC - Power Edge RAID Controller RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks ROMB - RAID On Motherboard SCSI - Small Computer System Interface U160 - Ultra 160 (160MB/sec throughput) U320 - Ultra 320 (320MB/sec through put) Warm Plug - Insertion or removal of device with all the I/Os quiescent PAGE 42 11/17/2005

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A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS
VER A02
PAGE 42
11/17/2005
8.
Appendix – B: Glossary
Array – Collection of multiple physical Hard Disk Drives to form a single logical volume
BBU – Battery Backup Unit
BIOS – Basic Input Output System
Cluster – Multi-initiator Environment with MSCS operating environment
HBA – Host Bus Adapter (non-RAID controllers)
HDD – Hard Disk Drive
Hot Plug – Insertion or removal of device without the need to quiescent I/Os
PERC – Power Edge RAID Controller
RAID – Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks
ROMB – RAID On Motherboard
SCSI – Small Computer System Interface
U160 – Ultra 160 (160MB/sec throughput)
U320 – Ultra 320 (320MB/sec through put)
Warm Plug – Insertion or removal of device with all the I/Os quiescent