Learn to speak storage with our glossary
There is quite a lot of tech terminology that's specific to the storage industry, and if you're like us, you might even have jogged your memory with...
Copilot
Copilot - A copilot is an application that uses modern AI and large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 to assist people with complex tasks. Microsoft first introduced...
Wear Leveling
Wear Leveling - the process inside an SSD of preventing heavily-used blocks of cells being worn out through high write rates by moving the data to less...
APU
APU - Accelerated Processing Unit - a processing chip which combine the functionalities of a CPU (Central Processing Unit) like an X86 or Arm processor and a...
ZFS
ZFS- Zettabyte File System devised by Sun Microsystems in 2001 and part of its Solaris OS. It later became open-source software.
ZFS was built...
EiB
Exbibyte – 1,000 pebibytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
YiB
Yobibyte - 1,024 zebibytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
ZiB
Zebibyte - 1,024 exbibytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
Zettabyte
Zettabyte - one thousand exabytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
Zebibyte
Zebibyte - 1,024 exbibytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.