Storing Your Information and Using the Network

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Storing Your Information and Using the Network

• Jill R. Sommer
• Kent State University
• Institute of Applied Linguistics

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Storing Your Information

• Storing information electronically takes up a lot
  less physical room than hard copy
• Having adequate computer storage is still a
  problem.
• If you dont have enough memory, your machine
  rebels.

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Storage Media

• Floppy disks
• Zip drives
• Jump drives
• Hard drives
• Server (H or Grads drive)
• Back up, back up, back up!

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Backing up is soooo important!

• Storage devices are used as insurance to back up
  what youve saved on your hard disk in case your
  computer hard disk crashes or shuts down
  unexpectedly.
• Without backup, you might have to spend hours,
  days, or even weeks to recreate your work.

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Or else you could look like this...
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Or like this.
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Storing Your Information

• While it takes discipline, its important to save
  and back up your work on a regular basis.
• Storing very important information on another
  device altogether, like a removable jump drive or
  the server is also a good idea in case of major
  calamity.

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What's a hard drive?

• One long-term memory device, called a hard drive,
  is installed in the computer.
• A typical hard disk, which looks like a metallic
  phonograph record, stores programs and files
  internally.
• Hard disk is often used as a synonym for hard
  drive, which is also the entire casing in which
  the computers memory sits.

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Storing Your Information

• With some computers, you can add a removable hard
  drive, almost always a self-contained unit, for
  additional storage.
• You may want to consider getting one once you
  graduate.

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What's it worth?

• 465 floppies 7 zip disks 1 CD-ROM 1/6 of
  one hard drive one encyclopedia
• 1 floppy 1.4 megabytes
• 1 zip disk 94 megabytes
• 1 jump drive 128 megabytes
• 1 CD ROM 650 megabytes
• 1 hard drive 4GB or 4000 megabytes

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Understanding the IAL LAN

• LAN stands for Local Access Network
• C drive means the local hard drive of the
  computer you are working on
• The F drive is generally for removable storage
  media
• The D drive is generally the CD-ROM drive
• When anyone refers to "The Server," they mean the
  H drive or "Grads drive"

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Understanding the IAL LAN

• Anything you store on the C drive will be
  automatically deleted at night.
• Store all files on the server (H drive)
• Keep a copy on a removable storage medium
• Do not send work from your removable storage
  medium!!!!!