Computer Storage and Adapter Card

The physical material on which a computer keeps data, information, programs, and applications

• Adapter Card Slot

• Adapter Card

• Storage Media

• Hardisk

The hardware that records and/or retrieves items to and from storage media

• Usb Flash drive

• Pen Drive

• Storage Capacity

• Storage Device

The process of transferring items from a storage medium into memory

• Writing

• Drawing

• Fetching

• Reading

Contains one or more inflexible, circular platters that use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information

• Optical Disk

• Usb Flash Memory

• Hard disk

• SSD

A flash memory storage device that contains its own processor to manage its storage

• Hard disk

• Optical disk

• Storage media

• solid state drive

A removable flash memory storage device that you insert and remove from a slot in a computer, mobile device, or card reader/writer.

• Memory Slot

• Memory Cards

• SSD

• Blue-ray

Types of adapter cards slots

• Accelerated Graphics Port

• Bluetooth card

• MIDI card

• Modem card

Connects to transmission media such as cable television lines or phone lines

• Adapter Card

• Network Card

• MIDI Card

• Modem Card

An expansion board that controls and produces video on the monitor

• Display Card

• Memory Card

• Graphic Card

• Moniter Card

Series of instructions that tells a computers what tasks to perform and how to perform them.

• System Software

• ROM

• Utility Program

• Software