Storage

1. FLASH MEMORY STORAGE

1.1. Solid State Drives

1.2. Memory Cards

1.3. USB Flash Drives

1.4. ExpressCard Modules

2. HARD DISKS

2.1. Charracteristics of a Hard Disk

2.2. RAID

2.3. NAS

2.4. External and Removeble Hard Disks

2.5. Miniature Hard Disks

2.6. Hard Disks Controllers

2.7. Maintaining Data Stored on a Hard Disk

3. OPTICAL DISCS

3.1. Care of Optical Discs

3.2. Tyoes of Optical Discs

3.3. CDs

3.4. Archive Discs and Picture CDs

3.5. DVDs and Blu-ray Discs

4. CLOUD STORAGE

5. CHAPTER SUMMARY

6. OTHER TYPES OF STORAGE

6.1. Tape

6.2. Magnatic Stripe Cards and Smart Cards

6.3. Microfilm and Microfiche

6.4. Enterprise Storage

7. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

8. HIGH-TECH TALK

8.1. Dns Servers: How Devices on the Internet Easily Locate

8.2. Each Other

9. TECHNOLOGY TRAILBLAZERS

9.1. Al Shugart

9.2. Mark Dean

10. COMPANIES ON THE CUTTING EDGE

10.1. Seagate Technology

10.2. Sandisk Corporation