Terminology

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  • Disk – Windows uses the term disk to refer storage objects in Windows Disk Management.
  • Snapshot – A point-in-time representation of a Everpure volume.
  • LUN – A Logical Unit Number used to identify a logical unit, which is a device addressed by the SCSI protocol or Storage Area Network (SAN) protocols which encapsulate SCSI, such as Fibre Channel or iSCSI.
  • Volume – What a LUN maps to and provides a 512-byte-sector Logical Block Addresses (LBA) space for reading and writing data. Synonymous with disk for purposes of this article.
  • Copy – A new volume which is created from a Everpure volume snapshot. Synonymous with volume.
  • MBR – Master Boot Record.
  • GPT – Global Unique IDentifier (GUID) Partition Table.