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    disk. 7.6 MAGNETIC TAPE Magnetic tape is the oldest and most cost-effective of all mass-storage devices. First-generation magnetic tapes were made of the same material used by analog tape recorders. A cellulose-acetate film one-half inch wide (1.25 cm) was coated on one side with a magnetic oxide. Twelve hundred feet of this material was wound onto a reel, which then could be hand-threaded on a tape drive. These tape drives were approximately the size of a small refrigerator. Early tapes had capacities

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    customer’s account numbers. -Conduct a validity check comparing the customer’s account number in transaction data with similar data in the master file to verify that the account exists. The error should be caught this way. J. A visitor to the company’s Web site entered 400 characters into the five-digit Zip code field, causing the server to crash. -Conduct a size check to ensure that the input data fits into the assigned field. 400 characters couldn’t be entered into a field that allows for only 5 characters

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    task within the organization. Policies and protocols related to Data center: Protecting the data center is protecting the organization data. Only the authorized database administrators and the system administrators are supposed to access the data center. Allowing the unauthorized people may cause effect to the production data, therefore loosing the information security. Policies and protocols related to Quality Assurance: All the data in an organization, when the pharmaceutical industry is concerned

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    Magnetic Storage Data In the ancient times, people used memories, wood, knots and cave paintings to remember places, knowledge, life experience and stories. These were the only few ways to storage information at that time and they were unreliable because people’s brain could forget information easily and other like the cave painting and wood could be eroded by nature. After the invention of the paper making technology, people started to write information on papers. It was much easier and better

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    Computer Storage History

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    access it in the form of computer storage. Computer storage is a fundamental component of a computer, it allows us to save and load things. Storage is space in a computer where data is to be processed and instructions required for processing are stored. There are two units of memory which is primary storage and secondary storage. Primary storage is the immediate access store where programs are located while they are running. Secondary storage is used to hold data that is not currently being executed

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    Advances in Data Storage Technology Contents I. Introduction 3 II. Purpose of storage 4 III. Hierarchy of storage 6 A. Primary storage 6 B. Secondary storage 7 C. Tertiary storage 7 D. Off-line storage 8 IV. Characteristics of storage 9 A. Volatility 9 B. Mutability 9 C. Accessibility 10 D. Addressability 10 E. Capacity 11 F. Performance 11 G. Energy

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    Storage Devices

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    Types of Storage Devices Physical components or materials on which data is stored are called storage media. Hardware components that read/write to storage media are called storage devices. Two main categories of storage technology used today are magnetic storage and optical storage. Primary magnetic storage o Diskettes o Hard disks (both fixed and removable) o High capacity floppy disks o Disk cartridges o Magnetic tape Primary optical storage o Compact Disk Read Only Memory (CD ROM)

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    Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Background 2 3. Literature Review 3 I. Medium 3 II. Access Type 3 III. Storage Types 4 4. The difference between a "Disk" and a "Disc" 5 5. Rotation Speed and Track Layout 5 6. Current Usage 5 7. Future Use 6 8. Summary 7   Introduction Technology changes so rapidly. It is sometimes really hard to believe that the laptops, tablets, smartphones and touchpads that we use

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    Computer Is Affected By Different Storage Devices Traci Benge CIS/201 May 7, 2012 Charles Jacks Abstract Today’s computers have different ways to store data. Some examples of these ways are devices as the hard disk (aka magnetic disk), floppy disk, RAM, CD ROM, tape, and the flash (aka jump drive, USB memory stick, and thumb drive). Storage devices come in two different sources; primary or secondary. Each of these devices causes the computer to process data at different speeds. This paper

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    Chapter 4: Processor Technology and Architecture 1) The central processing unit (CPU) performs fetch operations i.e. it fetches the instructions and inputs from the registers or primary storage in order to execute the instructions. 2) During the fetch cycle control unit fetches the instructions from and separate the op code from the operands, stores the operands in registers, and increments a pointer to the next instruction. 3) During the execution cycle, the control unit or the ALU executes

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