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After you have read this chapter, you should be able to:- Distinguish between primary and secondary storage.
- Identify the important characteristics of secondary storage including media, capacity, storage devices, and access speed.
- Describe hard-disk platters, tracks, sectors, cylinders, and head crashes.
- Compare internal and external hard drives.
- Compare performance enhancements including disk caching, RAID, file compression, and file decompression.
- Define optical storage including compact discs, digital versatile discs, and Blu-ray discs.
- Define solid-state storage including solid-state drives, flash memory cards, and USB drives.
- Define cloud storage and cloud storage services.
- Describe mass storage, mass storage devices, enterprise storage systems, and storage area networks.
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