Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics The Essential Guide [Hardcover]

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.? ?

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.

Thomas M. Coughlin is the Founder and President of consulting firm, Coughlin Associates. Tom has over 35 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical manager. In addition to regular technical and management consulting projects, he is the publisher of many reports covering technology and applications for digital storage devices and systems and writes a regular blog on digital storage topics for Forbes.com. He has many published papers, reports, and articles and is a frequent contributor to the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine where he is also an Associate Editor. He has six patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of tl3!