Tape Cartridge
Tape Cartridge – an enclosure containing a tape ribbon which is spooled around a spindle inside the cartridge.
Tape
Tape – A long ribbon with a magnetic surface which can be used for storing data in parallel tracks running the length of the tape. Data on the tape...
STT-MRAM
STT-MRAM – Spin Transfer Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory. (See MRAM.) STT-MRAM is a byte-addressable and nonvolatile memory with SRAM (Static RAM) and DRAM speed and the ability –...
Storage Engine
Storage Engine – Embedded code in an application that deals with the minutia of writing, sorting, and organising data so that it can be sent to storage devices in...
STO
STO – Spin Torque Oscillator. It is used to generate microwaves in a disk drive read/write head using Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) technology.
SSD
SSD – Solid State Drive – a storage medium using NAND (flash) solid state storage as opposed to the mechanically spinning platters in disk drive storage. SSDs, like HDDs,...
SR-IOV
SR-IOV – Single Root I/O Virtualization. This is an extension to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification and allows a device, such as a network interface card (NIC) to present...
SRAM
SRAM – Static Random Access Memory as compared to DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory). SRAM, once loaded with data bits retains their values as long as power is being...
SPOF
SPOF – Single Point of Failure –this refers to the potential failure of a single component or path in a system which would make the whole system fail.
SPEC
SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. This business produces standard benchmarks to measure a file storage system’s performance. For example, the SPECstorage Solution 2020 benchmark is a validated test...
SPC
SPC – Storage Performance Council – an industry standard storage system benchmarking organisation. The SPC’s SPC-1 benchmark tests the block performance attributes of a storage array responding to business-critical workload...
SONiC-DASH
SONiC-DASH – Disaggregated APIs for SONiC Hosts. An open-source project aimed to speed up cloud applications, and make SmartNICs and DPUs easier to deploy, manage, and update.