Storage Devices

Storage Devices

1. hard drive

   • External hard drive
     • portable
     • can hold up to 2TB
   • internal hard drive
     • not portable
     • Can hold up to 2TB
   • Solid state hard drive
     • No disk
     • less fragile

2. USB memory stick

   • Small and portable storage device
   • Cheap

3. SD card

   • Small and portable
   • can hold up to 64gb of memory

4. CD/DVD

   • CD store small files like music
   • DVD store larger files like films

5. Cloud

   • Online storage system
   • Can be accessed anywhere
   • not as secure because it can be hacked

6. Tape

   • old

7. Floppy disk

   • not much memory
   • very old