When we report on storage news as well as in our reviews, we use a lot of terms and features that might not be familiar to everyone. The words and acronyms sound good and you chose your products based on whether they are present or not. But what do they actually mean? That is something that I'll try to explain a little more today. I think there is a little bit for everyone here, whether you?re an advanced system builder or new to the area.

First I'll start out with the basic features that are present in almost any storage drive these days, whether it's a flash drive, hard disk drive, or solid state drive, and then slowly move on to the more exclusive features further down.