Storage Devices

Storage Devices

By Jonathan Bugeja

What are storage devices?

​Storage in computer systems. A storage device is a piece of hardware that is primarily used for storing data. Every desktop computer, laptop, tablet, and smartphone will have some kind of storage device within it. There are also standalone, external storage drives that can you can use across devices.

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Multiple Choice

What is a storage device?

• A piece of hardware which is used to store music?

• A gaming controller?

• A monitor which allows me to see videos?

• I can hear music from them?

Multiple Select

Select the correct answers (more then one!) Which of the following are storage devices?

• USB Pendrive

• DVD-ROM

• Hard Disk

• Gaming Controller

Multiple Choice

Cloud data storage is found ....

• In my pocket?

• On the internet?

• Is a computer part?

• In the sky?

Types of storage

We can find three types of Storage.

Mechanical -​ Hard Disks

​Have moving parts

Made out of disks

A needle finds files place in different sectors.​

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Optical based storage

​CD, DVD & BLU Ray

A spinning disk

Require a CD/DVD Drive​

What is written cannot be deleted.

Slower then hard disk drives​.

Being replaced by pen drives.​

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Solid State Drive

The best thing about solid state drives is that they have a much faster read/write speed than hard disk drives. They also have no moving parts, which means they don't make noise or break as easily. However, SSDs are can be more expensive than a hard drive. This also means that for the same price, someone can get much more capacity if they select a HDD instead.

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Multiple Choice

Which one is the fastest?

• Solid State Hard Disk

• Pen Drive

• DVD-ROM

• Mechanical Hard Disk Drive.

RAM- Random Access Memory

Random-access memory (or simply RAM) is the memory or information storage in a computer that is used to store running programs and data for the programs. Data (information) in the RAM can be read and written quickly in any order. Normally, the random access memory is in the form of computer chips.

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