Secondary Storage

A ______ is the main storage device in your computer.

• CPU
• Hard drive
• Motherboard
• CD-Rom

Optical device, fairly fragile, easy to snap or scratch.

• Flash memory
• Magnetic Tape
• CD
• Hard disk

This storage device needs a computer with a specific  drive in order to read the disk. Cannot be read by a CD drive or DVD drive.  Used for high definition films.

• Blu-ray
• CD
• DVD
• Bluetooth

Not intended to be a portable storage device.

• CD
• Flash memory
• DVD
• Internal hard disk

Same as 1,024 GB

• 1 TB
• 1 GB
• 1MB
• 1 KB

Large organisations use this type of storage device to  back up their systems daily.

• CD
• DVD
• Blu-ray
• Magnetic tape

Very portable as it is designed to be fitted into small electronic devices.

• Flash memory devices
• Internal hard disk
• Magnetic tape
• Server

The most durable storage device as it has not moving parts

• Solid State Storage
• Magnetic Storage
• Optical Storage

A single layer ___ can store about 4.7Gb of data.A double layer ___ can hold over 9Gb of data.

• DVD
• Flash memory
• Internal hard disk
• External hard disk

Typically stores 650mb of data on it - usually music.

• DVD
• Blu-ray
• CD
• Floppy disk