Disks and Other Storage Media

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The objective of this module is to introduce basic computer storage concepts. After doing the material in this module, you should be able to:

Define Logical Block Addressing (LBA)
Define disk partitioning and volume formatting
Define the logical areas of a disk
Define RAID and describe how it is used
Define Solid State Drives (SSD) and how they differ from typical magnetic drives
Identify types of storage media
Define disk geometry terms block, sector, cylinder
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of allocation of disk space using cluster/block and sectors
Use Windows Disk Management to determine properties of the physical disks of the computer, delete partitions, and create partitions

This lecture has some overlap with the one above, but does a better job explaining RAID: