Secondary Storage Devices and Storage Characteristics

CD stands for

• Compact disc

• Compound disc

• Compatible disc

• Common disc

DVD stands for

• Direct Video disk

• Downloaded video disk

• Dual Video disk

• Digital Versatile disk

It's storage capacity is 700MB

• CD

• DVD

• Blu-ray

It's storage capacity is 17GB

• CD

• DVD

• Blu-ray

This device is used in mobile phones, tablets and digital camera

• USB drive

• Hard disk

• Memory card

• CD

This device is used as main storage device in computer

• USB drive

• Hard disk

• Memory card

• CD

This device can be externally connected and is portable

• External hard disk

• Hard disk

• Memory card

• CD

This device is used to store operating system, application programs and other files & folders

• USB

• Hard disk

• Memory card

Secondary Storage stores the data and programs that are not currently being used but will be used in the future

• True

• False

Secondary Storage is volatile storage

• True

• False