User's Manual

88 Glossary

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

SAS

Serial Attached SCSI

SATA

Serial ATA

SBUU

Systems Build and Update Utility. An integrated tool for your Dell systems that

enables you to update BIOS and firmware in the pre-operating system

environment, apply these settings on the current system or on multiple systems,

and install the operating system.

SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface

SD card

Secure Digital card. A solid-state memory card.

span

A span is a RAID technique used to combine storage space from groups of physical

disks into a RAID-10 virtual disk.

SSD

Solid state disk

SSM

System Service Manager. The SSM performs USC or USC - LCE functions, such as

downloading updates, as a background task.

stripe

See

striping

stripe element

A stripe element is the portion of a stripe that resides on a single physical disk.