| Acronym | Meaning |
| ST506/412 | Seagate Technologies 506 And 412 Controller (older Technology) |
| CDF | Channel Definition Format |
| RPM | Revolutions Per Minute |
| AVI | Audio/Video Interleaved Format |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| DDOS | Distributed Denial-of-Service |
| LBA | Logical Block Addressing |
| GREP | Globally Search For The Regular Expression And Print |
| EIDE | Enhanced Integrated Device Electronics |
| HSL | Hypermedia Synchronization Language |