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Characteristics
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volatility
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speed - access time and transfer rate (throughput)
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access mode - random or sequential
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communication - serial or parallel
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portability
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cost and capacity
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Primary storage (electronic, except virtual memory)
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registers (on-chip)
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cache (on-chip and SRAM)
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main memory (DRAM, EEPROM, flash memory)
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virtual memory (Ch. 11)
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distinction between RAM and ROM
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distinction between SRAM and DRAM
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Secondary storage
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magnetic data recording
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optical data recording
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magnetic disk data formats
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optical disk data formats