20240206_210901

All Metal too! I don’t have a use for them right now but I’m sure I’ll find out something! (I have 14 of them…)

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    201·
    9 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

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    • tlf@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      With the SATA acronym it seems to have trouble resolving the AT, so I became curious. Here’s what I’ve found:

      “AT” was IBM’s abbreviation for “Advanced Technology”; thus, many companies and organizations indicate SATA is an abbreviation of “Serial Advanced Technology Attachment”. However, the ATA specifications simply use the name “AT Attachment”, to avoid possible trademark issues with IBM.