Storage Devices

Storage device stores information to be recalled and used at a later time Storage device consists of: Storage medium Storage device Three major technology types for information storage: Magnetic Optical or laser Flash memory

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Storage Medium Terms

Byte Kilobyte (KB) Megabytes (MB) Gigabytes (GB) Terabytes (TB) Petabyte (PB) Exabyte (EB)

= 8 bits 1 Thousand Bytes 1 Million Bytes 1 Billion Bytes 1 Trillion Bytes 1 quadrillion Bytes 1 quintillion Bytes

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Magnetic and Optical Storage

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Magnetic Storage Devices: Internal Magnetic Hard Disk

Magnetic storage devices can be either internal or external

Internal magnetic hard disks are fixed inside the system unit External magnetic hard disks are portable

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Magnetic Storage Devices: Internal Magnetic Hard Disk

Internal hard disk is a magnetic storage device with
One or more thin platters that store

information sealed inside the disk drive. Read/write heads access the information on surface Heads read information while copying it from disk to RAM Heads write information when copying it from RAM to disk

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Magnetic Storage Devices: External Magnetic Hard Disk

External hard disks are magnetic storage media which are portable storage units that you can connect to your computer as necessary
Great for backup storage devices Ability to transport your hard disk

from one computer to another

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Hard Drives
Long term storage system

and application software Operating system and application software are copied from the hard disk to memory Capacity measured in gigabytes

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Floppy Disks and Zip Disks

Removable magnetic storage media

come in two basic types:

Traditional floppy disks Zip disks

These storage media are useful for:

Storing files for backup or security purposes Transferring files from one computer to

another

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Removable Magnetic Storage: Floppy Disk

Floppy Mylar disk
Housed inside a hard plastic

casing Thin, flexible plastic disk

3.5 inch floppy disks
also called floppies, diskettes, floppy disks Holds about 1.44 megabytes of information

High-capacity disks
Zip disk

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Removable Magnetic Storage: Zip Disk

High capacity plastic platter disk
Called removable hard disks Provide a higher storage capacity than Mylar disks Example - Zip disk with capacity of 100MB, 250MB, and 750MB

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Optical Storage
CDs

DVDs
Both are optical storage and have three

formats:
Read-only Write-once

Read-and-write

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Optical Storage Media

Read-Only
CD-ROM
DVD-ROM

Fully Read-and-

Write
CD-RW DVD-RW or

One-Time Writable
CD-R
DVD-R DVD+R

DVD+RW or DVD-RAM

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Flash Memory Cards

Flash memory cards have high-

capacity storage laminated inside a small piece of plastic Flash flash memory cards do not need a drive with moving parts to operate

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Flash Memory Talk

CompactFlash (CF) xD-Picture Card (xD)

SmartMedia (SM) Card

SecureDigital (SD) card and MultiMediaCards (MMC)

Memory Stick Media

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Flash Memory Card Readers

Some devices have flash memory slots

into which you slide your flash memory card Other devices can use an external flash memory card reader in order to transfer information A flash memory drive is a flash memory storage medium for a computer that is small enough to fit in your pocket and usually plugs directly into a USB port

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