5G
5G – Fifth generation wireless networking. This is up to 100 times faster than the current 4G broadband cellular network standard used by mobile phones. 5G has been designed...
3D NAND
3D NAND – Three dimensional NAND is a flash chip built so that it scales in width, length and height. Originally NAND scaled in just two dimensions – width...
3-2-1 Rule
3-2-1 Rule – The storing of a backup in three separate places to ensure one of the versions can be used to recover the backed up data in case...
Storage Glossary
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...
MAID
MAID - Massive Array of Idle Disks to store persistent but little-used data on mostly spun-down disks. Envisage a disk array with a cache of spinning drives and a...
OEM
OEM - Opto-Electronic Memory. These are devices that use light - visible, ultra-violet or infra-red - signals and properties to store and retrieve data. They feature optical-to-electrical and electrical-to-optical...
Merkle Tree
Merkle Tree - a hierarchy of blocks starting from data blocks at the bottom and progressing upwards to the root with a set of hash blocks. Hashes are unique...
RAG
RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models with facts fetched from external sources. An Nvidia blog says RAG: "...
HSMR
HSMR - Hybrid Shingled Magnetic Media Recording disk drives. Hybrid SMR drives have both a conventional non-shingled magnetic recording (Conventional PMR or CMR) region and an SMR region. HSMR...