| AIT |
An acronym for Advanced Intelligent Tape, a magnetic tape and drive system used for computer data storage and archiving |
| Areal Density |
Important indicator of the performance of the disk and drive that corresponds to the number of magnetic bits per unit area |
Auxiliary Storage/
External Storage/
Secondary Storage |
All addressable data storage that is not currently in the computer's main storage or memory |
| Bit |
The smallest amount of information in a binary digital system that can be used to represent 2 states of information such as YES or NO |
| Byte |
Eight bits of information that can represent 256 different states, for example numbers, processor instructions, or a combination of letters and numbers as in ASCII code |
| DAFS |
An acronym for Direct Access File System, a new file access protocol designed to take advantage of standard memory-to-memory interconnect technologies |
| DAS |
An acronym for Direct Attached Storage, those parts of a Wide Area Network in which the mass storage devices are connected locally |
| DLT |
An acronym for Digital Linear Tape technology, a form of magnetic tape and drive system used for computer data storage and archiving |
| DAS |
An acronym for Direct Attached Storage, those parts of a Wide Area Network in which the mass storage devices are connected locally |
| Exabyte |
A unit of storage equal to 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 x Gigabytes = just over 1 billion Gigabytes. |
