IOW

IOW may refer to any of the following:

1. IOW (Input/Output Wait) is the time a system waits for I/O (input/output) operations. For example, the time it takes a hard drive or network to complete an I/O operation would be its IOW.

2. Shorthand for In Other Words, IOW is commonly used in chat rooms. Below is an example of how this may be used.

IOW this term is an acronym.

Bandwidth, Bottleneck, Chat terms, Computer acronyms, Data transfer rate, i.e., IOPS, Latency, Throughput, TLA