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Spring Tide English Emersion School Bahawalnagar: Storage Devices

The document discusses various computer storage devices. It describes a storage device as hardware that stores data, with the primary hard drive storing the operating system and files. Some common storage devices mentioned include hard disk drives, floppy disks, tape, compact discs, DVDs, USB flash drives, SD cards, and Blu-ray discs. Details are provided about the storage capacity and features of each type of storage device.

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Spring Tide English Emersion School Bahawalnagar: Storage Devices

The document discusses various computer storage devices. It describes a storage device as hardware that stores data, with the primary hard drive storing the operating system and files. Some common storage devices mentioned include hard disk drives, floppy disks, tape, compact discs, DVDs, USB flash drives, SD cards, and Blu-ray discs. Details are provided about the storage capacity and features of each type of storage device.

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Storage Devices

SPRING TIDE ENGLISH EMERSION SCHOOL


BAHAWALNAGAR

ASSI GNM ENT

Submitted by:

Laraib Hameed

Submitted to:

Mam Sonia Kanwal

Class:

Prep-1(s)

Topic:

Storage Devices

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Storage Devices

STORAGE DEVICE:
A computer storage device is any type of hardware that stores data.

The computer's primary hard drive stores the operating system ,

application , and files and folders for users of the computer While the

hard drive is the most ubiquitous Of all storage Devices , several

other types are Common as well.

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Storage Devices

SOME EXAMPLES OF STORAGE DEVICES


 Hard Drive Disk

 Floppy Disk

 Tape

 Compact Disc (CD)

 DVD and Blu-ray Discs

 USB Flash Drive

 Secure Digital Card (SD Card)

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Storage Devices

HARD DISK DRIVE


A hard disk drive or hard drive, is a data storage device for computer

Which uses magnetic storage to Store data. The capacity of s hard is

usually measured in gigabytes (GB), however hard disk capacity can

also be measured in terabytes When the capacity is over 1000

Gigabytes.

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Storage Devices

FLOPPY DISK DRIVE


The floppy disk drive, also known as diskette, is a removable

magnetic storage medium that allows recording of data. IBM first

introduced it as a 8-in diskette in 1971.Today, the most commonly

used floppy disks are 3.5 inches and have the capacity of 800KB to

2.8MB (with a standard of 1.44MB).

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Storage Devices

TAPE STORAGE
Magnetic tape data is a system for Storing digital information on

magnetic much thinner PET film. Most tape drives Could support a

maximum reel size of 10.5 Inches. (267 mm).

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Storage Devices

SD CARD
New standard allows SD cards to reach a theoretical maximum of

128TB. A new technical specification will enable SD cards to achieve

a theoretical maximum storage capacity of 128 terabytes (TB), with

transfer speeds of up to 985 megabytes per second ( (MB/s).

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Storage Devices

USB FLASH DRIVE


A USB flash drive is a data storage device that includes flash memory

with an integrated USB interface. It is typically removable rewritable

and much smaller than an optical disc… USB flash drives are often

used for storage data back-up and transferring of Computer files.

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Storage Devices

COMPACT DISC
The Compact Disc is 120 millimeters (4.7) in diameter, with a74 or

80 minute audio capacity and a 550 or 700 MB (737,280,000… bytes)

data capacity. Disc are 1.2 mm thick with a 15 mm center hole The 80

mm diameter discs can hold up to 24 minutes of music or 210 MB.

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Storage Devices

BLU-RAY DISC
The Blu-ray Disc have a capacity of 25 GB ( single layer), 50 GB (Dual

layer), 100, 128 GB(BOXL) UP to four layers are possible in a

standard form BD. Block size 2B sector ,64 KB ECC block.Read

mechanism 405 mm diode laser 36 MB/s.

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