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
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
Internal magnetic hard disks are fixed inside the system unit External magnetic hard disks are portable
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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
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
another
High-capacity disks
Zip disk
Optical Storage
CDs
DVDs
Both are optical storage and have three
formats:
Read-only Write-once
Read-and-write
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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capacity storage laminated inside a small piece of plastic Flash flash memory cards do not need a drive with moving parts to operate
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