DMA

Short for Direct Memory Access, DMA is the transferring of data from one storage device to memory to another device without using the CPU. Because DMA is freeing up the usage of the processor, DMA tends to be faster than PIO mode.

Also see: Bus mastering, Memory definitions, PIO, UDMA

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