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CMOS & External Memory

Hi everyone,

haiz...there is very sad and happy today.
Sad= This is the last post.
Happy= Finally I finished my mission already.

Anyway, hope all my post will help your guys something.


Let's start it together :)

What is CMOS?
CMOS actually is Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor.
-It requires very little power to retain its contents.
-It's able to store vital data of the computer system even when the power supply is turned off.
-It can hold the data involve floppy,hard-disk drives.
-It also able to kept the data of display system.(eg. date, time, system setup parameters.)




I believe that your guys have some idea with the external memory, right?

Normally, external memory can be separate with 3 common type:

1)Magnetic Disk

●Substrate used to be aluminium
●Improve surface uniformity
●Reduction in surface defects
●Lower flight heights
●Better stiffness and shock/damage resistance

Two types of the Magnetic Disk:

RAID(Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
-Lastest
-6 levels in common use but they don't imply hierarchical relationship.
-3 common characteristics:
  a)Set of physical disks viewed as single logical drive by O/S
  b)Data distributed across physical drives
  c)Can use redundant capacity to store parity information





-Removable (Floppy)

2)Optical Storage

-CD-ROM
-CD-Recordable(CD-R)
-CD-R\W
-DVD
-blu-ray

3)Magnetic Tape
●Serial access
●Slower
●Cheapest
●Backup and archive




Read and Write Mechanisms
Record & retrieval though conductive coil which called a head
During read/ write process, the head is stationary and the platter will rotates.









Characteristics

Head motion: Fixed (rare) or movable head
Disk portability: Removable or fixed (non-removable)
Magnetized-Coating SidesSingle or Double Sided
Platters: Single or Multiple platter
Head Mechanism
-Contact(Floppy)
-Fixed gap
-Aerodynamic








@The End@

Hope your guys will like my tutorial of Memory System Architecture.
If there got any problem or wrong, please kindly comment in my posted. I am very appreciated your suggestion.Thank you.


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