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No moving parts
No sensitive magnetic disks
Faster access to data
More reliable because there are no fragile drive platters
Lower power requirements because there is no motor
Disadvantage:
More expensive than traditional hard disk storage
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Increased storage capacity
Increased speed
Fault tolerance
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Early examples were floppy disks and Zip disks
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Chapter Summary
This chapter provides an introduction to how OSs interface with
storage devices and gives an overview of storage device
technologies
Popular computer storage technologies include hard disk drives,
solid state drives, RAID arrays, CD, DVD, and Blue-Ray
technologies that interface to the computer through the OS and
device drivers
An important part of learning to manage hard disk storage is
performing backups
Network storage devices include storage area networks (SANs)
and network attached storage (NAS)
Cloud storage enables users to access storage through the
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SANs can use Fibre Channel or InfinitBand technology and
NAS can use iSCSI storage technology
Modern medium- to large-capacity removable storage
includes USB attached removable hard drives, USB solid
state drives, eSATA drives, Light Peak drives, and USB flash
drives
Common tape storage options include DAT, DLT, SDLT,
AIT, S-AIT, and LTO tapes and drives
Operating systems come with storage management tools,
such as the Windows Disk Management tool, the Disk Utility
in GNOME for Linux, and the Mac OS X Disk Utility
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