Electronic Storage
Table of Contents
Exploring this from the ground up - via electrons (Physics) to Logic Gates (Compute Science).
Will be unstructured as I'll be visiting this node from different perspectives over time.
1. Misc Technical
- Some degrees of freedom in the context that enable variations in the physical realization of storage device are:-
- Speed of access
- The underlying Physics of storage
- Persistence of the data
For instance, speaking about two distinct instances:
- qubits (quantum information theory)
- the smoothened binary notion of day and night at the equator based on the position of the sun.
2. Sentinels
2.1. Cache
- high speed memory taking advantage of the temporal locality of reference principle -> recenlty accessed data is likely to be accessed again.
- caches are a good first step towards improving a DataBase's performance under multiple accesses.