Glossary - Definitions
- Broadwell - Refers to the 4th Generation of the Intel Core processor design
- DisplayPort (DP) - A digital display interface primarily used to connect a video source to a display device such as a LCD Display. DisplayPort connections can also be used to carry audio, USB, and other forms of data over a single connection.
- Firmware - permanent software programmed into a read-only memory.
- GUID - Globally Unique IDentifier
- - GUID Partition Table
- HGPTaswell - Refers to the 4th Generation of the Intel Core processor design
- Kaby Lake - Refers to the 7th Generation of the Intel Core processor design. (It is expected that Kaby Lake will
only support Windows 10.)
- Legacy ROM - (Legacy Read-Only Memory) enables older boot device options when systems are configured for
- MBR - Master Boot Record
- MDT - Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
- NVMe - Non-Volatile Memory express, a new technology that used the PCI-Express bus for SSD operations.
- PCI Express - A high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards
- SAS - Serial-attached SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), a computer bus interface using SATA devices and the speed of the SCSI host controller.
- SATA - Serial ATA (abbreviated from Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives.
- SCCM - System Center Configuration Manager (Microsoft)
- Slylake - Refers to the 6th Generation of the Intel Core processor design.
- Thunderbolt 3 - Thunderbolt 3 is a hardware interface that uses the USB Type-C connector. Thunderbolt combines PCI Express (PCIe) and DisplayPort (DP) into one serial signal, and additionally provides DC power, all in one cable. Up to six peripherals may be supported by one Thunderbolt 3 connection.
- UEFI - Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, System Setup interface that replaces BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) used for system configuration. UEFI (Shows boot options other than EFI enabled boot drives.)
- ZiB - Zebibyte (1 zebibyte = 2 bytes = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424bytes = 1024 exbibytes)