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KB/s –
Kilobytes per second. A means of measuring throughput.
Mb (Megabit) –
Equivalent to 1,000,000 bits.
Mb/s –
Megabits per second. A means of measuring throughput. 480Mb/s is
equal to 60MB/s.
MB (Megabyte) –
Basically means one million bytes, but is actually 1,024
Kilobytes or 1,024 x 1,024 bytes, which equals 1,048,576 bytes.
MB/s –
Megabytes per second. A means of measuring throughput.
Media –
The material or device used to store information in a storage
subsystem, such as a tape cartridge, CD, DVD or disk drive.
MPEG-II –
Digital signal compression developed by the Moving Pictures
Expert Group. It delivers excellent video playback with variable compression.
Works by removing redundant signal information that occurs during the video
encoding process.
Multisession
– Authoring process where data is added incrementally to a
CD/DVD in more than one recording session. This mode uses TAO, allowing
you to add data during several sessions. With this mode, though, every time a
session is added, nearly 15MB of information is used to create information
about the session.
Operating System (OS) –
Software that controls the assignment and use of
hardware resources such as memory, processor time, disk space and
peripherals. An operating system is the basis on which software (applications)
run. Windows, Mac OS and UNIX are among the most common.
Overwrite –
To write data on top of existing data thus erasing the original
data.
Packet Writing (PW)
– Authoring process that is very useful for data
backup, but cannot be used to write audio CDs. Buffer underrun is impossible
in this mode, because the data is written in “packets” of a few KB.
Partition, -ing –
After being formatted, the hard drive is not quite yet ready
to store files. It must first be divided into sections that will contain special
information required for a Mac or PC to operate and other sections that will
contain the files. This process of dividing up the hard drive is called
partitioning. A partition is just one section of the hard drive that will contain
either special data put there by Silverlining or other files and data.