Glossary
- Access control
Limiting access to resources according to rights granted by the system administrator, application, or policy.
- Access time
The amount of time it takes for a controller to find and read data on a media.
- Arbitrated loop
A Fibre Channel topology in which all nodes are connected in a loop, with frames passing from one node to the next.
- Archive
Copying data, which is only occasionally accessed, to an off-line media.
- Array
A device that aggregates large collections of hard drives into a logical whole.
- Asynchronous
A process that is not coordinated in time. In data storage processes, asynchronous means that the device or software does not wait for acknowledgement before performing the next I/O.
- Authentication
The process by which the identity ...
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