Storage

Storage

1. Solid State

   • Advantages
     • Portable, you can take it around with you
     • Can be used in a variety of devices
     • Light weight, so they are easy to carry
     • They are very durable because they have no moving parts
   • Disadvantages
     • How long they last.
     • Expensive, because they are durable
   • examples
     • Phones
     • Ipads/Tablets
     • computers

2. Magnetic

   • Advantages
     • relevently cheap per a unit of storage.
     • Fast access and retrieval times compared to otherstorage devices.
   • disadvantages
     • It is not very durable because it has moving parts which means it can break easily
     • Can only hold a small capacity of data.
   • Examples
     • Floppy Disks
     • Hard Disk Drives

3. Optical

   • Disadvantages
     • The disk capacity is very low so you can not hold much data on it
     • Low disk capacity, does not hold much.
   • Advantages
     • mass storage capacity
     • cheap
   • Examples
     • DVD-RAM
     • DVD-ROM
     • WORM cartridges