Storage Systems

11/23/99


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Storage Systems

I/O - the orphan of computer architecture

I/O devices

Hard (magnetic) disks

Hard (magnetic) disks

Typical figures for hard disks

The movable arm

Cylinders

Disk controller

Seek time

Rotational delay

The average disk access time formula

Floppy disks

Other secondary storage media or ideas

Reliability and availability

RAID

Examples of RAIDs

Buses

Types of buses

Some terms you need to know

Performance in human-computer interaction

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