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Storage
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- 1The three types of memory.1) Solid State
2) Magnetic
3) Optical - 2What is Solid State?This is made of microchips (switches)
The state of the switches determine if a 1, or 0 is stored - 3What is Optical?A laser light creates marks in a pattern on the disk
A laser light detects where the marks are and translates this into a readable format - 4What is Magnetic?Read/write move across the medium and change how magnetised that part of the medium is
E.g. one level of magnetism will be a 1, a second will be a 0 - 5What is Secondary Storage?Long term storage of data, files, software, OS.
- 6Why do we need to store these things?To access it again later
To use software
To interact with the computer - 7What would happen without secondary storage?Software would need to be installed each time we use it
You couldn’t save any files, data, images, videos etc.
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- Year 10 Computing Flashcards on Storage, created by William Suputra on 18/12/2017.
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