STORAGE

1. Hard Disk

1.1. Characteristics of a Hard Disk

1.2. RAID

1.3. NAS

1.4. External and Removable Hard Disk

1.5. Miniature Hard Disk

1.6. Hard Disk controllers

1.7. Maintaining Data Stored on a Hard Disk

2. Cloud Storage

3. Other Types of Storage

3.1. Tape

3.2. Magnetic Stripe Cards and Smart Cards

3.3. Microfilm and Microfiche

3.4. Enterprise Storage

4. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

5. HIGH-TECH TALK

5.1. New node

6. STORAGE

7. FLASH MEMORY STORAGE

7.1. Solid state drives

7.2. memory card

7.3. USB flash drives

7.4. ExpressCard Modules

8. Optical Disk

8.1. Care of Optical Disk

8.2. Types of Optical Disk

8.3. CDs

8.4. Archive Discs and Picture CDs

8.5. DVDs and Blu-ray Discs

9. CHAPTER SUMMARY

10. COMPANIES ON THE CUTTING EDGE