Storage

Storage

1. Solid state

   • Disadvantages
     • The biggest disadvantages of the solid state drive is the cost.
   • Advantages
     • The biggest advantage is that it can keep your data safe of an event of dropping it.
   • Examples
     • Solid state devices include: phones and laptops.
   • Features
     • Some features for solid state is: they have no moving parts and that they have no spinning platters.
   • These devices are the most durable because they are not very easy to break or damage. These devices are also the most reliable because

2. Magnetic

   • Disadvantages
     • One of the biggest disadvantages is that they include durability; if any area of the tape is damages or broken, it can lead to the entire role to be useless.
   • Advantages
     • The biggest advantage of magnetic disk storage over main memory is persistence of data. And has high capacity.
   • Examples;
     • Examples: Audio cassettes, video cassettes and tape.
   • Features
     • Some freatures: that each disk surface has one read/write head.

3. Optical

   • Advantages
     • One of the advantages for optical storage is they have high data stability.
   • Disadvantages
     • The biggest disadvantage of optical storage is disk capacity.
   • Examples
     • Optical devices include: tape, hard drive disk and floppy disk.
   • Features
     • They can range from a single drive reading a single CD-ROM.