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Information Representation: Summary
• All Information is stored and transmitted in digital form in a computer system
• Text is typically represented by ASCII or Unicode binary codes
• Integers are typically represented as pure binary or 2’s complement binary numbers
• Real numbers are represented in scientific notation form in binary
• Audio is converted to digital (binary) by ADC and from binary to analog by DAC
• Images are represented by pixels which are represented by binary numbers
• Video can be regarded as a combination of Image and Audio representations
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Storage Devices
• One binary digit i.e. 1 or 0 is called a bit• A group of 8 bits is one byte• Byte is the unit of storage measurement
Number of Bytes Unit
1024 bytes (210 bytes) 1 Kilobyte (Kb)
1024 Kb (220 bytes) 1 Megabyte (Mb)
1024 Mb (230 bytes) 1 Gigabyte (Gb)
1024 Gb (240 bytes) 1 Terabyte (Tb)
1024 Tb (250 bytes) 1 Petabyte (Pb)
• Review: Bits and Bytes
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Storage Devices
• Storage devices are may be classified as– Short-term (volatile) or– Long-term (permanent)
• Short-term
– RAM (Main Memory)
Loses contents on power off
• Capacity: n Megabytes• (2004: n = 256 .. 1024 for PCs)
• 100,000 times faster than disk !
• e.g. 27.7 hours is 100,000 times longer than 1 second
• Much more expensive than other storage devices
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Storage Devices
• Long Term (Secondary/Auxiliary)– Information stored for years– No power required to store information
• Disk: Magnetic medium
• Random access storage medium
• Hard Disk– Internal– External (Removable)
• Capacity : n Gigabytes (n = 30 to 100+ Gb for PCs)
Floppy Disk: 1.4MbZip Disk (100/250/750 Mb)
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Storage Devices
• RAID Technology: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
– Use collection of independent disks to do same job as a larger disk.
– Increases availability of data
– Improves access time
– Uses either disk mirroring or striping
– May be hot-swappable
• Capacity: x00 Gb to Tb range
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Storage Devices: Optical Technology
• CD-ROM/CD-R (ROM: Read-Only Memory; CD-R: Recordable)
• Capacity: 650 Mb
• CD-R is an example of WORM technologyWORM: Write Once/Read Many timesAlso have rewriteable CDs - more expensive
• CDs are much slower to access data than magnetic disks• Uses laser to read/write digital data on surface of disk
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Storage Devices: Optical Technology
• DVD: Digital Versatile Disk
• Capacity 4.7 Gb • (or n times 4.7 Gb where n = .5, 2, 4) • At moment - use mainly DVD-ROM
• Also DVD-RAM (rewriteable DVD)
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Storage Devices: Tape Technology
• Tapes: Magnetic and Optical • Slower to access than Disk• Cheaper than disk• Sequential storage medium• Very good for offline storage• Capacity
– Old: Reel ( <100 Mb)– Cartridge: 100Mb to <10 Gb– DAT: 4Gb upwards
• Optical tape: x Terabytes capacity• fast access relative to other tapes
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Storage Devices: Flash Memory
• Flash memory is a form of non-volatile RAM (NV-RAM)
• USB “disks” e.g. Disgo are small devices that store from 16 MB to 2 GB in this form of memory
• Plug into any USB port
• Most modern PCs and Operating Systems allow you use them without installing additional software (drivers)
• Much more convenient and reliable than Floppy disks
• Also much large capacity than floppy disks
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Storage Devices: Importance of Backups
• Most important storage principle:
Always have a Backup !
• It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of this principle
• Hard disks do and will wear out or breakdown (head crash)• They may also be stolen or lost (with your laptop or desktop)• Files may be deleted by accident/on purpose
• CDs and DVDs are very useful for storing a copy of your hard disk datayour backup copy.
• Traditionally tapes have been used as the standard backup medium
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Storage Devices: Review
• Short and Long-term storage devices• RAM: Short-term x00 to low Gigabyte range
– 100,000 times faster than disk• Disk: Long-term, Magnetic medium
– Widely used– X Gb (X = 30 .. 200 for PCs)
• CD/DVD: Long-term; Optical medium; Very robust– Widely used; Slower than disk– CD: 650 Mb– DVD: 4.7 Gb upwards
• Tape: Long-term; Sequential access; Magnetic; Slow; Cheap– DAT: 4 Gb upwards– Optical: terabyte range
• NV-RAM devices: Long-term– USB : 16 Mb to 2GB
• Always have a Backup