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Chapter 08-Secondary Storage

This document is from a chapter about secondary storage devices. It discusses the need for secondary storage due to limitations of primary storage like limited capacity and volatility. It provides learning objectives about classifying and understanding the basic principles and uses of common secondary storage devices like magnetic tapes, disks, and optical disks. These objectives also include other related concepts such as RAID, jukeboxes, and storage hierarchies.

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Chapter 08-Secondary Storage

This document is from a chapter about secondary storage devices. It discusses the need for secondary storage due to limitations of primary storage like limited capacity and volatility. It provides learning objectives about classifying and understanding the basic principles and uses of common secondary storage devices like magnetic tapes, disks, and optical disks. These objectives also include other related concepts such as RAID, jukeboxes, and storage hierarchies.

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Learning Objectives

In this chapter you will learn about:

§ Secondary storage devices and their need

§ Classification of commonly used secondary storage


devices

§ Difference between sequential and direct access


storage devices

§ Basic principles of operation, types, and uses of


popular secondary storage devices such as magnetic
tape, magnetic disk, and optical disk

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Learning Objectives
(Continued from previous slide..)

§ Commonly used mass storage devices

§ Introduction to other related concepts such as RAID,


Jukebox, storage hierarchy, etc.

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Limitations of Primary Storage

§ Limited capacity because the cost per bit of storage


is high

§ Volatile - data stored in it is lost when the electric


power is turned off or interrupted

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Secondary Storage

§ Used in a computer system to overcome the limitations


of primary storage

§ Has virtually unlimited capacity because the cost per bit


of storage is very low

§ Has an operating speed far slower than that of the


primary storage

§ Used to store large volumes of data on a permanent


basis

§ Also known as auxiliary memory

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