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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.