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IGCSE Computer Science Worksheet

The document discusses secondary storage technologies used in computers from the 1990s to today. It provides details on the average storage capacities of hard disk drives (HDD), solid state drives (SSD), and portable hard drives. Students are instructed to divide into groups to research and discuss topics related to storage technologies, including why 4-8MB was sufficient in the 1990s but not today, a timeline of storage technologies, how CDs represent data using pits and lands and its relation to binary, how magnetic drives represent binary, and how solid state memory works.

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IGCSE Computer Science Worksheet

The document discusses secondary storage technologies used in computers from the 1990s to today. It provides details on the average storage capacities of hard disk drives (HDD), solid state drives (SSD), and portable hard drives. Students are instructed to divide into groups to research and discuss topics related to storage technologies, including why 4-8MB was sufficient in the 1990s but not today, a timeline of storage technologies, how CDs represent data using pits and lands and its relation to binary, how magnetic drives represent binary, and how solid state memory works.

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Secondary storage

7ORKSHEET

A desktop computer has several secondary storage drives for different storage media.
Find out what the following drives have traditionally been used for.
A

Text

B
C
D
E
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Computers in the 1990s had a hard disc capacity of 4-8Mb. This was sufficient to
store all the programs and data. In todays market, on a typical home computer, what
is the average capacity available for:
a. HDD
b. SSD
c. Portable HDD
HDD- 500 GB
SSD- 252 GB

Protable HDD

In groups of five divide the discussion points below between yourselves. Spend some
time individually researching the discussion point allocated to you. Once completed,
as a group share and discuss your findings with each other. Then, collectively as a
group, design and produce a poster (or a digital advert, using whichever software you
find suitable) to present your group research findings.
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s 0RODUCEATIMELINEOFTHEDIFFERENTSTORAGETECHNOLOGIESANDWHENTHEYBECAMEAVAILABLE
s #$SSTOREDATAUSING@PITSAND@LANDS7HATISTHERELATIONSHIPBETWEENTHISANDBINARY
s (OWDOMAGNETICDRIVESREPRESENTBINARY
s (OWDOESSOLIDSTATEMEMORYWORK

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