Dell PowerEdge 400SC User Manual
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Mb
Megabit(s); 1,048,576 bits
MB
Megabyte(s); 1,048,576 bytes. However, when referring to hard-drive capacity, the term is often rounded to mean 1,000,000 bytes.
Mbps
Megabits per second
MBps
Megabytes per second
MBR
Master boot record
memory address
A specific location, usually expressed as a hexadecimal number, in the system's RAM
memory module
A small circuit board containing DRAM chips that connects to the system board
memory
An area in your system, other than the hard drive, that stores basic system data. A system can contain several different forms of memory, such as
integrated memory (ROM and RAM) and add-in memory modules (DIMMs).
MHz
Megahertz
mirroring
A type of data redundancy in which a set of physical drives stores data and one or more sets of additional drives stores duplicate copies of the data.
Mirroring functionality is provided by software. See also guarding, integrated mirroring, striping, and RAID.
mm
Millimeter(s)
ms
Millisecond(s)
MS-DOS
Microsoft Disk Operating System
NAS
Network Attached Storage. NAS is one of the concepts used for implementing shared storage on a network. NAS systems have their own operating
systems, integrated hardware, and software that are optimized to serve specific storage needs.
NIC
Network interface controller