Secondary Storage Devices

Secondary Storage Devices

1. Solid State Storage

   • It has a lower capacity than magnetic staorage
   • It is used in portable devices so that you can download apps.
   • It has a fast read and write speed than magnetic storage does.

2. Magnetic Storage

   • It has a really slow read write speed
   • You cant use it on portable devices becaudse it wont work
   • It is cost effective so you can afford it

3. Optical Storage

   • Has limited capacity
   • Isn't very durable
   • It is cost effective and is very portable so you can carry it around with you.

4. Capacity

   • An amount of data a component can hold (mesured in bytes)

5. Durabillity

   • How robust/hard wearing the storage device is

6. Portabillity

   • How easy the storage device cab be used on different device

7. Data transfer speed

   • How fast a component read and write data to another component