Storage Devices

Storage Devices

1. Solid State

   • Advantages
     • High capacity
     • Durable
   • Disadvantages
     • Not very cost effective
   • Features
     • Mobile phone
     • Laptop

2. Optical

   • Advantages
     • Portable
   • Disadvantages
     • Low capacity
     • Easily scratched
   • Features
     • CD/Blu ray discs
     • DVD

3. Magnetic

   • Disadvantages
     • Easily broken
     • Moving parts
   • Advantages
     • Cost affective
     • High capacity
   • Features
     • Floppy disc
     • Tape

4. Storage

   • Why do we need storage?
     • There are two types of storage: temporary and long-term. Memory is what helps the processor and programs work, without them nothing would work properly! Another reason is that if there isn't storage, then nothing that you upload onto your computer would save.