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Secondary Storage

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Secondary Storage

Optical Storage
- Examples
  - DVD's
  - CD's
  - Blu-Ray Discs
- Advantages
  - Very portable
  - Cost Effective
- Disadvantages
  - Limited Storage
  - Not very durable
Magnetic Storage
- Examples
  - Hard drive
  - Floppy disk
  - Hard disk drive
- Advantages
  - Cost Effective
  - Has a lot of storage
- Disadvantages
  - Not durable at all
  - Writes data slower than solid state
Solid state storage
- Examples
  - USB drive
  - SD cards
  - Smart cards
- Disadvantages
  - Not very cost effective
  - Small capacity
  - Small read/write memory
- Advantages
  - Very durable
  - Energy efficient
Purpose
- what do we use storage for?
  - Storing data (files, operating systems, applications) permanently

Description: Mind Map on Secondary Storage, created by Max Dando on 07/12/2020.
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