Secondary Storage

Secondary Storage

1. Optical Storage

   • CD
   • DVD
   • Not very durable
   • Very portable

2. Magnetic Storage

   • Digital
   • USB(Not smartphones)
   • Most capacity compared to Solid State therefore you can download you can download more programs and save more files
   • Magnetic storage has a slower read/write speed compared to Solid State Storage.It also isn't very durable due to it having moving parts

3. Solid State Drive

   • USB(Not smartphones)
   • Digital
   • Fastest read/write speed
   • Smaller capacity compared to Magnetic

4. Secondary Storage is non-volatile so it means the data is permanently stored when the computer system is turned of and when it is turned back on the files and programs are still there and able to be opened.