Storage Devices

Storage Devices

1. Solid State

   • Advantage
     • fast
     • durable
     • portability is high
   • Example
     • Phones,tablets and gaming PC's/laptops
     • Calculator
   • Disadvantage
     • if you lost the device you are going to lose all the information
     • expensive

2. Purpose

   • What do we use storage for?
     • Storing data (files operating system,applications).Permanently

3. Magnetic

   • Examples
     • Samsung M3 portable HD,Seagate 2 TB internal SATA AND MORE
   • Advantages
     • cheap
     • you can take it with you because it is small
   • Disadvantages
     • not good design
     • less durable
     • portability is not so good

4. Optical

   • Example
     • DVD's/CD's AND Blu-Rays
   • Disadvantages
     • It is not durable at all
     • low capacity
     • reliability is not so good
     • the speed is not so great
   • Advantages
     • cheap
     • you can take it with because it is so small
     • memory is pretty good

5. it was invented in 1950

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