This is a storage glossary with entries (terms) linked to explanations. It is more than a storage dictionary but not a storage encyclopaedia. New terms will be added as the industry develops its technologies.
- 3 – 3-2-1 Rule – 3D NAND – 3D X-DRAM – 3D XPoint
- 5 – 5G
- A – AFA – AGI – Air Gap – Anisotropy – APU – Archive – ASCII – ASI – ASIC – ATA – Autoloader – AWS – Azure
- B – Backup – BaM – BEOL – Binary – Binary and Decimal Prefixes – Binary number – Binary Search Tree – Bit – Bit Line – Block – Blockchain – Blu-ray – Bounce buffer – B-Tree – Byte
- C – Cache – CAMM – CAS – CBA – CD – Charge Trap – CHS – CIFS – CMOS – Codec – Coercivity – Composable Systems – Compression – Computational Storage – Container – Copilot – CopprLink – COSI – COW – CPU – CSAL – CSI – CXL – Cylinder Head Sector
- D – D2D – D2D2T – DASE – DDR – DDR4 – DDR5 – DDR6 – Data Lake – Data Mesh – Data Warehouse – Decimal – Decimal and Binary Prefixes – Deduplication – DIMM – Disaster Recovery – DNA Storage – DORA – DPU – DRaaS – DRAM – dStorage – DVD – DWPD
- E – E1.L – E1.S – E3.L – E3.S – EAMR – EB – ECC – EDSFF – Ei – EiB – e.MMC – Endurance – ePMR – Erasure Coding – ESCON – Ethernet – ETL – Exabyte – Exbibyte
- F – FC – FCOE – FC-MAMR – FDP – FEOL – FERAM – Fibre Channel – FICON – File – Filer – Flash – Flit – Floating Gate – FPGA – FRU – FTL – FTP
- G – GCRAM – GDDR – GDS – Gb – GB – GFS – GiB – Gibibyte – Gigabyte – GPU – GPUDirect – GPUDirect RDMA
- H – HAMR – HB – HBA – HBi – HBM – HBM3E – HCI – HDD – HeLC – Hellabyte – Hellabibyte – High Bandwidth Memory – HLC – Host Bus Adapter – Holographic storage – HPC – HSM – HSMR – Hudi
- I – IaaS – IB – Iceberg – IDE – ILM – IO – InfiniBand – IPFS – IPU – IP – iSCSI – iSER – iWARP
- J – JBOD – JBOF – JEDEC – JSON
- K – K8S – Kb – KB – Key Value Store – KiB – Kilobyte – Kilobibyte – Kubernetes – KVS
- L – Lakehouse – LAN – LBA – LDPC – LLM – Lock – Logical Block Address – Log-Structured Merge Tree – LPDDR – LRDIMM – LRU – LSM-Tree – LTFS – LTO – LUN
- M – M.2 – MAID – MAMR – MAS-MAMR – Mb – MB – MCR DIMM – Megabyte – Merkle Tree – Metadata – MiB – Mibibyte – MLC – MMIO – MRAM – MR-IOV – MR-MUF – MS-SSD
- N – Namespace – NAND – NAS – NDMP – Nemo – NFS – NIC – NIM – NIS2 – NOR – NVMe – NVMe-oC – NVMe-oF – NVMe FC – NVMe KV – NVMe/TCP
- O – OEM – Object Lock – Object Storage – OCP – OPI – OSI – Over-provisioning
- P – PaaS – PATA – PB – PBBA – PBW – PCIe – PCM – Pebibyte – Phase-Change Memory – PHY – Physical Air Gap – PiB – PIM – PLC – PMR – pNFS
- Q – QLC – QR Code
- R – RAG – RAID – RAIL – Ransomware – RAS – RBOF – RDIMM – RDMA – RDMA over IP – Replication – ReRAM – Resilvering – Retrieval Augmented Generation – RLHF – RNIC – Robot – RoCE – ROW – RPO – RRAM – RTO
- S – S3 – SaaS – SAN – SAS – SATA – SCM – SCSI – SDS – SDXI – SerDes – Serverless – sFTP – SI Units – Silo – SiPH – SLC – SMART – SmartNIC – SMB – SME – SMR – Snapshot – SNIA – SoC – SONiC – SONiC-DASH – SPC – SPEC – SPOF – SRAM – SR-IOV – SSD – STO – Storage Engine – STT-MRAM
- T – Tape – Tape Cartridge – Tape Library – TB – TCP – TCP/IP – Tebibyte – Terabyte – Thin Provisioning – TiB – TLC – TRIE – TRIM – TSV
- U – U.2 – U.3 – UALink – UCIe – UDIMM – UDP – UFS – UPS – USB – UUID
- V – VAAI – VADP – Vector Embeddings – Virtual Air Gap – VLAN – VM – Volume – VSS – VTL – V-Tree – vVols
- W – Wear Leveling – Web3 – WLAN – Wireless LAN – Word Line – WORM – Write Amplification
- X – XPoint
- Y – YB – YiB – Yobibyte – Yottabyte
- Z – ZB – Zebibyte – Zettabyte – ZFS – ZiB – ZNS – Zoned Namespace – Zoned SSD
