computer science 13/11/2018

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1.3 storage

all CD looking items go into the optical media category

2 examples of magnetic storage and what they are

•Floppy disk this is a thin disk sealed in a square plastic carrier

•Magnetic tape this is mainly used for backup as it can hold a lot of data

hard disk is a solid state storage and it can break easily

Optical media is any disk this storage category uses a laser beam to read the data on them e.g. Blu-ray, DVD, music CD. These all have different sizes for different jobs.

Cloud storage is all online it is a good storage as you can access it from almost anywhere but it could be easily hacked into.

Flash memory is a non-volatile, solid state storage device. It is portable and affordable.

key categories (The categories refer to the tech used for that type of storage device)

- optical

- magnetic

- flash memory

- cloud memory