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ZFS = Z File System, a next-generation file system from oracle ZIL = ZFS Intent Log SSD = Solid State Drive, a type of long-term data storage system with better read/write speeds than an HDD NAND = not actually an acronym, but a type of logic gate. Not AND.


Oracle? I think you mean Sun.


Hilariously enough, NAND is the only acronym. The others are initialisms.


You don't pronounce 'zill' and 'zef-ess' as acronyms?


Initialisms are acronyms.


Other way around. Acronyms are the subset of initialisms that are pronounceable.


Dictionary.com uses same definitions for both words, just in a different order. The first definition of acronym is when initials form a pronounced word; which is the second definition of initialism. So they're the same thing with the difference being vernacular.




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