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22 Cards in this Set
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What is currie Munce's main aim? |
Build bigger storage |
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How quickly did the possbile areal density of hard disks increase in the 1990s? |
it doubled every 18 months |
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how long does munce think magnetic recording technology will continue to make rapid advances in capacity? |
at least another 5 - 10 years |
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What problem does he predict for magnetic storage? |
superparamagnetism threatens to make densely packed bits unstable |
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what is predicted limit for discrete bit magnetic storage capacity? |
10 terabits per square inch |
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what storage technologies might replace current magnetic systems? |
atomic force microscopy and holographic storage |
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what is the advantage of holographic storage being three-dimensional? |
Pages of data can be superimposed on a single volume. |
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What improvements are predicted due to the fast access rates and tranfer times of holographic storage? |
Improved network searches video on demand, high-end servers, enterprise computing and supercomputing |
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What is predicted to be the mosrt important high capacity removable storage mdia in the next 10 years. |
cd-roms and dvds |
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what method of software distribution is likely to replace optical drive? |
online delivery |
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Big blue |
IBM |
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areal density |
a phenomenon that threatens to make densely packed bits unstable in magnetic storage devices |
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moore's law |
prediction that the number of transistors than can be incorporated into a processor chip will doubled every 18 months |
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superparamagnetism |
a phenomenon that threatens to make densely packed bits unstable in magnetis storage devices. |
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terabit |
one thousand gigabits |
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AFM |
atomic force microscopy |
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angstrom |
the approximate radius of an atom |
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the development of afm is more advanced then holographic storage |
false |
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the predicted maximum storage density of AFM is 400 gigabits per square inch |
true |
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hologprahy works in 3D |
true |
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univac I was the first computer to use tape storage edvices |
true |
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users want higher capaicty storage devices than technology can provide |
false |
