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Storage Devices: Iintroduction To Computing

Storage devices like hard drives, floppy disks, optical disks, and tapes are used to permanently store data outside of RAM memory. They utilize magnetic or optical technologies, with magnetic storage using magnetism to access data on floppy disks and hard drives, and optical storage using lasers to read and write to disks like CDs and DVDs. Common storage devices include hard disk drives with high storage capacities, floppy disks, tapes, CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and DVDs.

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Storage Devices: Iintroduction To Computing

Storage devices like hard drives, floppy disks, optical disks, and tapes are used to permanently store data outside of RAM memory. They utilize magnetic or optical technologies, with magnetic storage using magnetism to access data on floppy disks and hard drives, and optical storage using lasers to read and write to disks like CDs and DVDs. Common storage devices include hard disk drives with high storage capacities, floppy disks, tapes, CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and DVDs.

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Storage devices

Different from RAM More room in storage than in memory Storage devices do not need constant power supply Data in memory disappear when computer is turned off Storage devices operate much slower than memory chips Storage devices are cheaper than memory

iIntroduction to computing

Storage Types
Magnetic Storage Floppy and Hard Drive use magnet to access data Optical Storage CD and DVD drives use laser beam to access data

iIntroduction to computing

Disk drives, Hard Disk Drives high capacity floppy disk drives and tape drives and magnetic tape are coated with a magnetically sensitive material This special coating enables them to store data

Floppy Disk Hard Disk

Tape

iIntroduction to computing

Optical storage devices use lasers to read data from and write data to the reflective surface of an optical disk CD-ROM drive is the most common type of optical storage Compact disk Read Only Memory (CD_ROM), CD_Recordable (CD_R), CD_ReWrtable (CD_RW) all uses same technology to store,read and write data Digital Video Disc (DVD) is popular storage device now a days

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