Optical Storage & Flash Memory

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Cristhian Gavilánez
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Cristhian Gavilánez
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Optical storage Optical storage is the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light, usually a beam of laser light precisely focused on a spinning disc. An older example, that does not require the use of computers, is microform. There are other means of optically storing data and new methods are in development. Optical storage differs from other data storage techniques that make use of other technologies such as magnetism or semiconductors.Optical storage can range from a single drive reading a single CD-ROM to multiple drives reading multiple discs such as anoptical jukebox. Single CDs (compact discs) can hold around 700MB (megabytes) and optical jukeboxes can hold much more.An optical drive is a device in a computer that can read CD-ROMs or other optical discs.It is estimated that in the year 2007, optical storage represents 27% of the world's technological capacity to store information. Memoria flash The flash memory -derived Eeprom memory allows reading and writing of multiple memory locations in the same operation. As a result, the flash technology, provided with electric pulses, allows much higher operating speeds versus primal EEPROM technology, allowing only act on a single memory cell in each programming operation. This is the technology used in the denominadosmemoria USB devices.

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