User:Whiteknight/Data Storage Media

I'm not sure when I want to introduce this book. I have alot of material on all the subjects here, but I don't have the time right now to pull it all together. This will be, I think, a very big book, and I don't want to enter into it lightly. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 01:39, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Introduction
I want this book to discuss the field of data storage, particularly as it applies to hardware systems, but also as it applies to software systems as well (particular file systems, et al).

Section 1: Magnetic Media

 * Magnetic Tape
 * Removable Magnetic Media
 * Floppy Disks
 * Zip Disks
 * Jazz Disks
 * Magnetic Tape Drives
 * Permanent Magnetic Media
 * Hard Disk Drives

Section 2: Electric Media

 * Flash Memory
 * Sony Memory Cards
 * SD Memory Cards
 * Volatile Memory
 * RAM (DRAM, SDRAM, etc...)
 * EPROM (EEPROM, etc...)
 * Battery Backed-up RAM
 * Battery Backed-up RAM

Section 4: File Systems

 * Basic File Systems
 * Advanced File Systems Concepts
 * Permissions and Flags
 * Windows File Systems
 * FAT (FAT16, FAT32)
 * NTFS
 * Unix/Linux File Systems
 * Ext (EXT, EXT2, EXT3)
 * Operating System Design/Case Studies/ext4
 * ReiserFS
 * Mac File System
 * HFS Plus
 * btrfs
 * zfs

Section 5: Optical Media

 * Optical Memory
 * CD-ROM
 * CD-R, CD-RW
 * Laserdisk
 * DVD-ROM
 * Double-Density DVD
 * HD-DVD
 * Blue-Ray Disk
 * Optical File Systems
 * ISO-9660
 * ISO-13490
 * UDF
 * Holographic Storage

Section 6: Logical Media

 * Partitions
 * Primary Partitions
 * Secondary Partitions
 * Extended Partitions
 * Logical Partitions
 * Logical Drives
 * Volumes

Section 7: Redundant Storage

 * RAID
 * Error Correction
 * Failure Detections
 * geographically distributed file systems

Section 8: Drive Interfacing

 * IDE/EIDE/ATAPI
 * SCSI (wide SCSI, Ultra SCSI, etc...)

Resources

 * The Computer Revolution/Hardware/Storage
 * Computer Hardware
 * Embedded Systems/Memory Units
 * Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology


 * How To Backup Operating Systems
 * Operating System Design/File Sys; Operating System Design/File Systems/Faults; Operating System Design/File Systems/Journal
 * Choosing The Right File Format
 * Version Control ("geographically distributed version control systems" have many of the same advantages and problems as "geographically distributed file systems")
 * Distributed Systems

Existing Pages
Data Storage Media =Magnetic Media =Electric Media =File Systems =Optical Storage =Logical Storage =Storage Redundancy =Drive Interfacing =Databases and High-Level Storage =Network Storage
 * Magnetic Tape
 * Floppy Disks
 * Zip Disks
 * Hard Disk Drives
 * Flash Memory
 * DRAM
 * SRAM
 * EPROM
 * File Systems Concepts
 * FAT
 * NTFS
 * EXT Systems
 * ReiserFS
 * HFS Systems
 * CD-ROM
 * CD-R
 * CD-RW
 * DVD
 * BlueRay
 * ISO-9660
 * ISO-13490
 * UDF
 * Partitions
 * Logical Drives
 * Volumes
 * RAID
 * Failure Detection
 * Error Correction
 * IDE and ATAPI
 * SCSI
 * Relational Databases
 * Distributed Storage
 * DAT
 * NAT
 * Cloud Storage