Dell PowerVault MD3000i - Manual (Page 32)

Dell™ PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i Array Tuning Best Practices
December 2008 – Revision A01 Page 32
Term Definition
by t10.org
Segment A segment is the data written to one drive in a virtual
disk group stripe before writing data to the next drive in
the virtual disk group stripe.
Short I/O
Any I/O that consumes less that 1/3 of available cache
memory that can be handled within cache, effectively a
cached operation.
SQL Structured Query Language; flexible markup language
for computer databases maintained by ANSI and ISO.
Stripe A set of contiguous segments spanning across member
drives.