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Storage devices

Secondary storage refers to any device that can store data, in addition to main memory.
Secondary storage devices are non-volatile and are typically high capacity, portable or both.

Factors affecting the choice of a secondary storage device include:

• speed (how quickly data can be accessed)


• cost per storage unit (i.e. price per gigabyte or megabyte)
• durability (toughness)
• portability (how easy it is to move it from one computer to another)

Magnetic storage devices (magnetized media) include hard disk/disc drives, floppy disks/discs,
and magnetic tapes.

A magnetic disk drive consists of a number of platters (disks) coated in a magnetic material.
They spin at around 7200 rpm. The data is encoded into bits and written onto the surface as a
series of changes in the direction of the magnetization. The data is read by detecting the changes
in direction.

Uses, advantages and disadvantages of storage media:

Storage Characteristics / Typical


Advantages Disadvantages
uses
devices

Relatively cheap per Can be easily


Magnetic unit of storage. Fast damaged, will slow
storage: access and retrieval down and eventually The main storage device in
Hard Disc times compared to break over time. most computer systems.
Drive (HDD) other storage Slower access than
devices. Solid State Drives.

Can hold a lot more


data than a standard
More expensive than A laser reads from and
Optical DVD, meaning it can
DVDs. Requires a Blu- writes to Blu-ray disks.
storage: store movies with
ray player. Can lose Used to store HD movies
Blu-ray disk better picture and
data when scratched. and other HD recordings.
sound quality.
Portable.
Storage Characteristics / Typical
Advantages Disadvantages
uses
devices

USB flash drives and solid


Electrical Very compact in Considerably more state hard drives have
storage: size and therefore expensive per unit than replaced the traditional
Solid State very portable. High magnetic storage. HDD in some new
Storage speed of data More vulnerable to computers. Memory cards
Devices transfer and low abrupt power loss and are used as a convenient
(SSD) power consumption. electro-magnetic fields. and portable removable
storage medium.

Device Image Typical Comments


capacity

RAM 500Mb-8Gb,
16Gb for
Servers

SSD (Solid 300-500Gb, Flash Ram storage. Faster than magnetic HD's,
State drive) Can go up to and use less energy and produce less heat, but
8TB (Tiny), have smaller capacities and are expensive.
16TB
(Samsung),
100TB
(Nimbus)

Hard disk 500Gb - 4Tb, Hard disc drives are discussed here
drive Typically up
(magnetic) to
15tb/18TB,
and current
claimed max
of 100TB
(Nimbus),
limited to
50TB later

USB memory 2-64Gb, Flash RAM


sticks 128Gb,
256Gb.
Can go up to
1TB and 2TB
using USB
3.0/3.1
technology

Floppy disc 800Kb Double sided / double density


3.5 inch
DS/DD

Floppy disc 1.4Mb High density


3.5 inch HD

Compact disc 650-740Mb This can be extended up to 800Mb through a process


-
known as "over-burning", though there is no guarantee

that all CD drives will be able to access the extra data.

NOTE: Some of the different compact disc standards

are discussed in our article on CD mastering.

Compact disc 650Mb (+ If a blank disc is used to backup computer files in data,
- CDROM 90Mb error
or CD-ROM format, approximately 90Mb of capacity is
correction
data) used for error correction purposes, leaving 650Mb for

data.

Compact disc 740Mb (74 If a computer CD-R blank disc is used to create a so
- Red book minutes)
called "Red book" audio disc, suitable for domestic
audio
audio players, all 740Mb of capacity can be used for

music. Error correction is handled by the players

themselves.

If the files are burnt in data, or CD-ROM format (as

.wav, .aiff, or .mpg etc) capacity is as CD-ROM

(650Mb).

NOTE: Computers CD-R drives can create red book

audio CDs from computer CD-R blank discs (avoid CD-

RW for this purpose). Domestic audio CD recorders

use pre-formatted CD-Audio discs.

DVD (Digital 4.37-15.9Gb Click here for a full overview of the DVD format
Versatile
Disc)

Blu-Ray Single layer Adopted for HD video delivery and 3rd gen
= 25Gb, Dual gaming platforms, but has not taken off for
layer = 50Gb computer storage/backup yet.

Tape drive storage capacity can go up to 330TB (Sony and IBM) and 400Tb (Fujitsu). Tape libraries or
tape robot/jukebox is a storage device that contains one more tape drives. A typical NASA tape library is
said to have about 1Exabyte, i.e. 1000PB (or 1,000,000TB)of storage.

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