Storage Technologies

Use the internet to discover the latest innovations in storage technologies. Look at the web sites suggested below and answer the five questions. You may hand-write or type your answers. Do not cut and paste entire sections from the web-sites. Hand in your responses (make sure you write your name on your submission).

IBM offers several hard drives for your PCs, both fixed and portable. Go to the IBM web site (www.ibm.com) and find out the storage capacity and access speeds  of some of their products.

Question 1

1.    What is the range of storage capacity and access speed of current IBM hard-drives? Price?  What is a microdrive?

Go to www.mitsumi.com and find out what the new CD technology is. What is a CD-R? What is a CD-RW?  

Question 2

2. What are the latest products in this market?  What is the reading speed and the writing speed (where applicable) of some current (a) CD-ROM, (b) CD-R, (c) CD-RW?

What is a zip drive? What is a jaz drive? What is a pocket zip? Go to the web site of iomega at www.iomega.com to look at the products of one of the more innovative companies in the business of storage technology.

3. What is a hipzip?
4. What is a jaz drive? Capacity of a jaz disk?

DVD

Surf the web to find out some information about DVDs.  Answer the following question.

Question 5

5. What is the latest in DVD technology?  Storage capacity?  Speed?  Price range?