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BIOS or MS-DOS., activity, array, array initialization, available space/segment

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Glossary A activity See task. ACU Array Configuration Utility. An application used to create, configure, and manage arrays from the controller's BIOS or MS-DOS. array A logical disk created from available space and made up of one or more segments on one or more physical disks. Arrays are typically used to provide data redundancy or enhanced I/O performance. See also container, segment, volume, spanned volume, RAID 0, RAID 1. Also known as a container. array initialization See initialize. ATA AT Bus Attachment. Standard parallel interface to IDE hard disks typically used in desktop computers and some entry-level servers. Serial ATA (SATA), is a successor to parallel ATA, which is sometimes referred to as PATA. available space/segment Unused space on an initialized disk from which logical devices (arrays) are created. When an array is deleted, the space that it used is returned to the available space pool. Glossary-1

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Glossary-1
Glossary
A
activity
See
task
.
ACU
Array Configuration Utility. An application used to create, configure,
and manage arrays from the controller
s
BIOS or MS-DOS.
array
A logical disk created from available space and made up of one or
more segments on one or more physical disks. Arrays are typically
used to provide data redundancy or enhanced I/O performance.
See also
container
,
segment
,
volume
,
spanned volume
,
RAID 0
,
RAID 1
.
Also known as a
container
.
array initialization
See
initialize
.
ATA
AT Bus Attachment. Standard parallel interface to IDE hard disks
typically used in desktop computers and some entry-level servers.
Serial ATA (SATA)
, is a successor to parallel ATA, which is
sometimes referred to as PATA.
available space/segment
Unused space on an initialized disk from which logical devices
(arrays) are created. When an array is deleted, the space that it used
is returned to the available space pool.