tailieunhanh - Lecture Discovering computers fundamentals - Chapter 6: Storage

This chapter explains various storage media and storage devices. Students discover how memory is different from storage. Floppy disks are introduced, and characteristics of a floppy disk, floppy disk drives, care of floppy disks, and high-capacity floppy disks are presented. Hard disks are explained, and students find out about characteristics of a hard disk, how a hard disk works, removable hard disks, hard disk controllers, RAID, and maintaining data on a hard disk. | Chapter Six Storage Discovering Computers Fundamentals 2010 Edition Living in a Digital World Objectives Overview Describe the characteristics of an internal hard disk including capacity platters read write heads cylinders sectors and tracks and revolutions per minute Discuss the purpose of network attached storage devices external and removable hard disks and hard disk controllers Describe the various types of flash memory storage Describe cloud storage and explain its advantages See Page 237 for Detailed Objectives Discovering Computers Fundamentals 2010 Edition Chapter 6 2 Objectives Overview Describe the characteristics of optical discs Differentiate among various types of optical discs Identify the uses of tape magnetic stripe cards smart cards microfilm and microfiche and enterprise storage See Page 237 for Detailed Objectives Discovering Computers Fundamentals 2010 Edition Chapter