secondary storage

secondary storage

1. Solid State

   • What is the advantages?
     • Solid State has a bigger capacity compared to Optical Storage.
   • What are the Disadvantages?
     • Solid State is less cost effective compared to Magnetic storage.

2. Magnetic

   • What are the advantages?
     • Per GB it only costs £0.02 compared to Solid state which costs £0.32
   • What's the disadvantages?
     • Magnetic's read/write speed is only 159MB/s and 148MB/s but Solid State is over 500MB/s.

3. Optical

   • What's the advantages?
     • Optical is more portable compared to Magnetic Storage.
   • What is the disadvantages?
     • Optical Storage is less durable comparing it to Solid State.

4. Secondary storage is non-volatile so it stores data permanently to the device.