CSC 101 Introduction to Computers Spring 2005 Lecture Five Parallel Processing; Secondary Storages

Course Home Page Syllabus Assignments - Monday Class Assignments - Tues/Thurs Class

Parallel Processing - Grid Processing SETI - http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

• Magnetic Disk Storage

  • Interchangeable
    • 3.5" Floppy
    • SuperDisk
    • Zip Disk
    • Caring for Floppy Disks
    
    
    
  • Fixed
    • Hard Drive
    
    
    
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    Data Organization

    • Tracks
    • Recording Density
    • Sector
    • Cluster
    • Cylinder
  • VFAT - Virtual Allocation Table
    
    

  • Other Disk Stuff

    • Defragmenting
    • Formatting
    • Disk Speed
    
    
    
  • Disk Caching and Virtual Memory
  
  
  

• Optical Disc Storage

  • CD - ROM
  • DVD
  • Data Storage
  
  
  

• Flash Drives

  • http://www.usbflashdrive.org/usbfd_overview.html
  • http://usa2.ebooks.com/

Computers; Information Technology in Perspective - Chapter 4, Section 4; Chapter 5, Section 1 -2 - pgs. 178 - 206

Links for Further Study

Virtual File Allocation Table Definition - http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci214144,00.html

CD-ROM Technology - http://www.pcmech.com/show/multimedia/29/

Information about the computer bus - http://www.computerhope.com/help/bus.htm

The computer bus - http://www.fact-index.com/c/co/computer_bus_1.html

Last Updated: 11/3/04