Essays Tagged: "storage media"

Computer threats.

perating conditions, natural disasters and simple wear and tear can physically damage machinery and storage media such as disks, tapes and diskettes. This causes the cost of repair of replacement hard ...

(2 pages) 52 0 2.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

A comparison of Thick and Thin clients in Networks.

d they are called 'thick', (as opposed to 'thin') because they have their own processor, memory and storage devices.However, a recent article suggests that networks could be better by the use of 'thin ... 'thin clients'. This is where the users just have a dumb terminal with no memory, processing power, storage etc. for use with multi user operating systems.There are many advantages and disadvantages i ...

(2 pages) 61 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Electronic Contracting

ues of technological obsolescence will surface as older records and data must be converted to newer storage media. There will be a constant need to adapt and improve the systems that are being used to ...

(1 pages) 160 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

In depth study of the DVD technology.

IntroductionDVD or Digital Versatile Disc is an optical disc storage media format, which can be used for Data storage, high quality video and audio. DVDs resembl ... ingle standard format for higher density CDs (compact discs). DVD is an improvement on CDs with its storage capacity of 4.7 gigabytes, the DVD's capacity is much greater than CD's, almost by seven tim ... transportation, and the invention of the laser has revolutionised visual and aural transmission and storage. This revolution has given way for the development of DVD technology. Furthermore, in the ea ...

(4 pages) 33 0 0.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Holographic Technology

f information. The principal system components consist of a laser, a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM), storage media, detector and transform optics. Fig. 1 illustrates schematically the elements of holog ... of holographic recording and read out of data. Data are stored holographically by recording in the storage medium the optical interference pattern that is created by mixing an encoded data beam with ...

(1 pages) 1071 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Antivirus Programs APA Style Word 2007

cts a computer against viruses by identifying and removing any computer viruses found in memory, on storage media, or on incoming files.(Bulowski, 2008) When you purchase a new computer, it often incl ...

(1 pages) 18 0 1.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Information and Communication Technology

y replacement of desktop computers with laptops, more powerful processors, the near obsolescence of storage media such as floppy disks, the growing potential for solid-state technologies (such as flas ...

(6 pages) 36 0 0.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Input and Output Methods

Input, Output, Storage Media and PerformanceInformation is only as good as the data from which it is derived from. ... sual means, for a few common uses of data in the business environment. Lastly, the use of different storage mediums and different computer performance characteristics will be discussed.Data is the bas ... Because a company needs to make multiple copies and many people this printer would do the best job.Storage mediums come in different forms, each having their unique area of use. Below, the use of har ...

(5 pages) 2386 0 4.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

A Report on Computer Peripheral Architecture

used in virtual environments. There are three main areas are to be researched into, which are Data storage and representation, Environment manipulation, and Communication. These days, a lot of new pe ... plications. Most interface are also becoming smaller and more of them are now wireless equippedData storage and representationa.Provide details of areas that the company will need to research. For exa ...

(5 pages) 2618 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science