Secondary Storage

Secondary Storage

1. Magnetic

   • Examples
     • PCs, desktop computers, laptops, games consoles.
     • Music player
   • Advantages
     • Lifespan
     • Low cost effective
     • Larger Capacity than Solid State
   • Disadvantages
     • Difficult to recover lost things
     • Slow to find data
     • Physical and enviroment damage

2. Optical

   • Examples
     • CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays.
     • Disk Player
     • Flash drives/Usb
   • Advantages
     • Very Cheap
     • Possibly can be reused
     • Large storage capacity
   • Disadvantages
     • Old computers don't read the disks
     • Sometimes not re-usable

3. Solid State

   • Examples
     • Phones, tablets and gaming PCs/laptops.
     • Music player
     • Usb
   • Advantages
     • No noise while in operation
     • Low power consumption
     • Faster then a hard drive
   • Disadvantages
     • Shorten lifespan
     • Poor availability
     • More expensive then hard drives

4. Purpose

   • What do we use storage for?
     • Storing data (files, operating system, applications). Permanently.
     • Being able to make things.Like Drawings and etc
     • Being able to do educational things