The hard drive is a device that is used for reading/writing digital data. It is a general section of every computer. The HDD keeps all the information we have. The hard drive might basically be separated into 2 general pieces – the mechanic one and the electronic one. The mechanical part of the hard drive [...]
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What Is a NAS, and How Does RAID Work?
October 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Network Devices, Networking, Storage
NAS is an acronym for Network-attached storage. It actually represents a storage system for hard drives and can include different things within it, like configuration of RAID. When used in along side LAN IP, NAS can be configured to send different applications to network users spread across different workstations. NAS typically has its own set [...]
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USB Flash Drives
June 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Flash Drives, Solid State Drives, Storage
A Thousand Floppies In The Palm Of Your Hand The age of floppy disks is finally over. The age of Zip disks, and maybe even CDs could be over too! As media files are becoming more robust and heavy in size, portable devices that store them are getting smaller physically while storing increasingly massive amounts [...]
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What Is Storage Virtualization?
May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Storage
Computer data is stored on disks and solid state media for availability over days, months or years. In small systems, such as a personal computer there is a CPU and one or two hard disks. When a disk fails or runs out of space another disk has to be manually added, and, the data has [...]
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What Is Interleaving?
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Introductions, Memory, Storage
In computers, interleaving is a method of writing and reading data out of sequence. Data interleaving is used to combine multiple digital data streams, like in files that contain both audio and video. This technique is also used for memory interleave in disk storage and computer memory, used to make data read and write more [...]
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Data Warehouse
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Introductions, Networking, Storage
A data warehouse is a place where data is stored for archival, analysis and security purposes. Usually a data warehouse is either a single computer or many computers (servers) tied together to create one giant computer system. Data can consist of raw data or formatted data. It can be on various types of topics including [...]
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Boot Sector Virus
May 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Security, Storage
A boot sector virus is a computer virus which infects the boot sector on hard disks, floppy disks, and theoretically also other bootable media such as CD’s and DVD’s. A boot sector virus does not need to be able to successfully boot the victims computer to infect it. Because of this, even non-bootable media can [...]