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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