Storage Devices

Storage Devices

1. magnetic

   • advantages
     • low price
     • big storage
   • disadvantages
     • Low MB/s
     • hard to carry around
   • examples
     • TB Internal
     • M3 portable

2. purpose

   • what do we use storage for ?
     • to store apps, files ,folders, pictures and things that is important to you

3. Solid State

   • advantages
     • no moving parts
     • flash memory to store data
   • disadvantages
     • high price (per a giabite)
   • examples
     • 840 solid states drive
     • 256GB Flash Drive

4. optical

   • examples
     • CD's
     • DV's
   • disadvanteges
     • smaller storage
     • slower to access than others
   • advanteges
     • mass storage captivity (on the order of gigabytes )
     • long media life