Avago Technologies AcceleRAID 170LP - Manual (Page 69)

Glossary
Manual No. DB11-000024-00 G-11
Fast/Wide SCSI
SCSI devices using data rates up to 20 MHz. Compare with Fast SCSI, Ultra
SCSI (Fast 20 SCSI), Ultra2 SCSI (Fast 40 SCSI), Ultra160 SCSI (Ultra3
SCSI), and Wide SCSI.
Fibre Channel
Technology for transmitting data between computer devices at a data rate of
up to 2 Gbps (two billion bits per second), especially suited for connecting
computer servers to shared storage devices and for interconnecting storage
controllers and drives.
Fibre Channel is expected to replace the Small System Computer Interface
(SCSI) as the transmission interface between servers and clustered storage
devices. It is also more flexible: devices can be as far as ten kilometers
(about six miles) apart. The longer distance requires optical fiber as the
physical medium; however, fibre channels also work using coaxial cable and
ordinary telephone twisted pair wires.
File Server
A computer shared by users over a Local Area Network (LAN) which
provides user access to files on the LAN. Other types of servers perform
application services (for example, mail servers, web servers) rather than just
store files.
FlashPoint™
A family of Mylex SCSI host bus adapters.
Gigabit
10
9
(1,000,000,000) bits. Abbreviated as Gb.
Gigabyte
2
30
(1,073,741,824) bytes. Abbreviated as G or GB.