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Storage
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- 1What is secondary storage?It is storage that is not always available to computers for example a USB or CD
- 2Types of secondary storageUSB
Floppy disk
CD
DVD
Magnetic tape
Portable hard drives - 3Advantages of secondary storageNon volitile
Cheap
Portable - 4Optical storageSaves data as pattens
created using lasers
process is called burning
used on cds - 5Magnetic storagedata is stored using magnetised dots
used by Hard drives
dots are created using electromagnets - 6solid state storageNo moving part
uses flash memory
flash memory is Electronically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
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- Flashcards on Storage, created by dboardman611 on 12/05/2016.
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