2. What is a storage Device? A storage device is a device used for storing something.
3. Types of Storage Devices Optical Eg. BLU Ray Compact Disks – CD-ROMS ; CD-R; or CD-RW DVD’s Magnetic Eg Hard Disks Magnetic tape Floppy Solid State Eg. External Hard Disks Camera Card USB’s
5. BLU Ray Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data.
6. Compacts Discs A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data.
7. DVD’s A DVD is a larger, faster CD that can hold video, audio, and/or computer data.
9. Hard Disks The hard disk drive is the main, and usually largest, data storage device in a computer. It is inside the computer
10. Magnetic Tape Magnetic tape is an external storage device that can be used for making copies of audio, video, and data.
11. Floppy A floppy disk is a data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, it is in a square or rectangular plastic shell. It cannot contain as much data a CD or DVD or a Hard disk
12. Solid State Storage Devices Uses electronic circuits that retain the values without any power source
13. External Hard Drive An external hard disk drive is a type of hard disk drive which is connected from the outside to a computer An external hard disk drive is a type of hard disk drive which is externally connected to a computer
14. Camera Card (SD Cards) They look like tiny pieces of plastic with 5 metal contacts and will come in capacities ranging from 128mb to 8 gb.
15. USB’s A USB flash drive consists of flash memorydata storage device integrated with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.1 or 2.0 interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, much smaller than a floppy disk, and most weigh less than 1 ounce
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Physically similar to a CD, a single-layer, single-sided DVD has a maximum capacity of 4.7GB (about two hours of MPEG-2 video), about seven times the capacity of a CD-ROM (a normal CD holds around 650MB).
