Table of Contents
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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