Intel 325152002US User Manual

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Intel
®
 Solid-State Drive 320 Series
Intel
®
 Solid-State Drive 320 Series
Product Specification
September 2011
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Order Number: 325152-002US
Intel
®
 Solid-State Drive 320 Series
8.0
Terms and Acronyms
 defines the terms and acronyms used in this document.
Table 17.
Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
Term
Definition
ATA
Advanced Technology Attachment
DAS
Device Activity Signal
DIPM
Device Initiated Power Management
DMA
Direct Memory Access
ECC
Error Correction Code
EXT
Extended
FPDMA
First Party Direct Memory Access
GB
Gigabyte
Note: The total usable capacity of the SSD may be less than the total physical capacity because a 
small portion of the capacity is used for NAND flash management and maintenance purposes.
HDD
Hard Disk Drive
I/O
Input/Output
IOPS
Input/Output Operations Per Second
ISO
International Standards Organization
KB
Kilobyte
LBA
Logical Block Address
MB
Megabyte
MLC
Multi-level Cell
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
NCQ
Native Command Queuing 
NOP
No Operation
PIO
Programmed Input/Output
RDT
Reliability Demonstration Test
RMS
Root Mean Squared
RoHS
Restriction of Hazardous Substances
SATA
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SCT
SMART Command Transport
SMART
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
An open standard for developing hard drives and software systems that automatically monitors the 
health of a drive and reports potential problems.
SSD
Solid-State Drive
TYP
Typical
UBER
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate