Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide

by Thomas M. Coughlin

Overview

This book provides an introduction to digital storage for consumer electronics. It discusses the various types of digital storage, including emerging non-volatile solid-state storage technologies and their advantages and disadvantages. It discusses the best practices for selecting, integrating, and using storage devices for various applications. It explores the networking of devices into an overall organization that results in always-available home storage combined with digital storage in the cloud to create an infrastructure to support emerging consumer applications and the Internet of Things. It also looks at the role of digital storage devices in creating security and privacy in consumer products.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319699066
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/10/2017
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2018
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tom Coughlin is a 25-year veteran of the digital storage industry. He has worked at several companies (including Ampex, Seagate, Maxtor, and Polaroid) designing and managing the design of digital storage products. He is the founder and organizer of the Storage Visions Conference, the leading annual event on digital storage in consumer electronics. Attendance at Storage Visions has increased about 70% annually in recent years, and includes all the major worldwide players in the technology. Tom is also a market analyst in the storage area and the author of annual reports on entertainment content creation and distribution and on the integration of digital storage into consumer electronics. He has extensive industry contacts and a broad base of support for the research required to complete this book. He has over 50 publications and six patents to his credit and is active in the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (current chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE CE Society), the IDEMA Consumer Electronics Committee (co-chair), and other professional organizations. Tom has a bachelor of science in Physics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Materials Science.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Fundamentals of Hard Disk Drives.- Fundamentals of Optical Storage.- Fundamentals of Flash Memory and Other Solid-State Memory Technologies.- Storage in Home Consumer Electronics Devices.- Storage in Automobile and Mobile Consumer Electronic Devices.- Developments in Mobile Consumer Enabling Technologies.- Integration of Storage in Consumer Devices.- Home Network Storage, the Cloud and the Internet of Things.- The Future of Home Digital Storage.- Standards for Consumer Electronics Storage and Appendices.

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Editorial Reviews

"This book will immediately become an indispensable reference book for the storage industry movers and shakers, developers and users. It will be a valued contribution for years to come." —Rick Wietfeldt, CTO, Emerging Technologies and Strategy, Texas Instruments, Inc.

"Tom Coughlin's The Essential Guide to Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics is an excellent guide to the internal workings of increasingly ubiquitous digital storage. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to understand and not simply use technology to enrich their lives." —Tom Clark, Principal Engineer, Brocade, and Board Member of the Storage Networking Industry Association

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