1-2 Maxtor Atlas 10K V
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
