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Storage of Data
DATA: Unorganized collection of facts which is able to be
organized into useful information.
Storage:Storage holds data, instructions, and information
for future use. For example, computers can store hundreds or millions
of customer names and addresses. Storage holds these items permanently.
Storage devices:Hardware components that read data from and write data to storage media called storage devices.
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Types of Storage Devices
There are three types of storage devices.
1) Magnetic Storage Devices
2) Optical Storage Devices
3) Solid-State Storage Devices:
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Magnetic Storage
Such devices, coated with magnetically sensitive material (i.e. Iron Oxide that react to a magnetic material)
Uses magnet to access data Use binary relation to store data (1 and 0
form) The storage capacity is unlimited. Magnetic disk are less vulnerable to data
corruption due to careless handling. E.g. (Floppy Disk, Hard Disk)
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Optical Storage
Use laser to read data and write data to the reflective surface of optical disc
They are better storage medium than magnetic storage devices.
Optical disc storage system consists of a metallic or plastic disk.
Due to there compact size and light weight, optical disks are easy to handle store and port from one place to another.
E.g. (CD, DVD, And Blue Ray Disc)
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Solid-State Storage Devices
Non volatile Less Expensive from blue rays High Speed They stored data on memory circuits
rather than disk or tapes. They store data electronically not in a
magnetic or optical form. They don’t need to move a head or
sensor to find data. E.g. ( Flash drive, Memory Cards)
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Hard Disk Drive
“Introduced by IBM in 1956 became the dominant secondary storage device for general purpose computers by the early 1960s”
Data storage device for storing and retrieving digital information using platters (rapidly rotating disks).
Non volatile. Individual blocks of data can be stored or
retrieved in any order rather than sequentially. It consist one or more rigid platters.
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Working
There are just a large shiny circular
plates of magnetic material called platter, divided into billions of areas. Each one of these areas can be independently magnetized to store disk drive (HDD) records the data by magnetizing ferromagnetic material directionally to represent either 0 or 1 binary digit. They read the data back by magnetization of the material.3/17/2015
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Capacity And Performance
There are two ways to measure the performance of a hard disk.
1) Data rate:It is the number of bytes per
seconds that the drive can delivers to the CPU the rate between 5 and 40 megabytes are common.
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Capacity And Performance
2) Seek Time:
The seek time is the amount of time between when the CPU request the file and when the first byte of the file is sent to the CPU. Times Between 10 and 20 milliseconds are common.
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Manufacture rate and Sale
More than 200 companies have manufactured HDDs over time.
Most popular production companies today: Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba.
Worldwide revenues for disk storage were $32 billion in 2013, down about 3% from 2012..
The estimated 2013 market shares are about 40–45% each for Seagate and Western Digital and 13–16% for Toshiba.
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Types of Hard Disks
There are types of hard drive.
1) ZIP/ Bernoulli disk.2) Disk pack.3) Winchester Disk.
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Zip/Bernoulli Disk
Consist of single hard disk platter. Storage capacity 8GB to 500GB or more May be portable or fixed. The fixed type is connected permanently. Portable type is connected to computer
during use and then after use it can be disconnected.
It can be loaded/Unloaded into a Zip drive as we insert/remove a video cassette into video cassette player.
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Disk Pack
Consists of multiple hard disk platter. All disk revolved together around single
central shaft. When not in use user can store a disk
pack off-line in a plastic case. This gives virtually unlimited storage
capacity to disk pack. Storage capacity of disk pack varies from
hundred GB to several Thousand GB. Diameter 14-inch introduced by IBM.
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Winchester Disk
Consists of multiple Hard disk platters Mounted on a single central shaft.
Its hard disk platters and disk drive are sealed together and can not be separated from each other.
Have large storage capacity because all surfaces of all disk platters are used for data recording.
Storage capacity varies from few gigabits to few terabits.
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