Datasheet

Intel
®
X25-E SATA SSD
Intel
®
X25-E SATA Solid State Drive
Product Manual May 2009
22 Order Number: 319984-005US
Intel
®
X25-E SATA SSD
8.0 Glossary
This document incorporates many industry- and device-specific words. Use the
following list to define a variety of terms and acronyms.
Table 16. Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
Term Definition
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAPI Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
BER Bit error rate, or percentage of bits that have errors relative to the total number of bits received
DIPM Device Initiated Link Power Management. The ability of the device to request SATA link power state changes.
DMA Direct Memory Access
EXT Extended
FP First Party
GB Giga-byte defined as 1x10
9
bytes
HDD Hard Disk Drive
Hot Plug A term used to describe the removal or insertion of a SATA hard drive when the system is powered on.
iMSM The Intel Matrix Storage Manager device driver and associated system software.
IOPS Input output operations per second
LBA Logical Block Address
MB Mega-bytes defined as 1x10
6
bytes
MTBF Mean time between failures
NCQ
Native Command Queuing. The ability of the SATA hard drive to queue and re-order commands to maximize
execution efficiency.
NOP No Operation
OS Operating System
Port The point at which a SATA drive physically connects to the SATA controller.
RMS Root Mean Squared
RPM Revolutions Per Minute
SAS Serial Attached SCSI
SATA Serial ATA
SFF Small Form Factor
SMART
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology: an open standard for developing hard drives and
software systems that automatically monitors a hard drive’s health and reports potential problems.
SSD Solid State Drive