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Practical- 4

AIM:- Study and Demonstration of Storage Devices:


Pendrive, Memory Card, Hard Disk, RAM, ROM,
DVD,CD.

Pen/Flash Drive
A pen drive or USB flash drive is also called a USB stick, the USB thumb
drive is a plug-and-play compact storage device.

A pen drive can be used instead of a CD/DVD. At the point when a user
connects the pen drive to the USB port, the PC's Operating System
perceives the device as a removable drive and allocates it a drive letter.

At present accessible pen drives with capacity limits running from 8GB and
64GB can be utilized to store designs substantial records, photographs,
music documents, and video cuts.

A pen drive connected to a USB port can be utilized as an interfacing


device to move records, reports, and photographs to a PC. So also, select
records can be moved from a pen drive to any computer.
Memory Card
A memory card is a sort of storage medium that is used to store media and data
files. Memory cards are used to make extra space in electronic devices so that
their storage capacity gets enhanced to store some more data in it.

Devices which are commonly use a memory card including digital cameras,
digital camcorders, handheld computers, MP3 players, PDAs, cell phones, game
consoles, and printers. Flash drives are removable devices, while memory cards
are often kept within the device or console.

Hard Disk
The hard disk is the most commonly used permanent memory of the computer
system. It is capable to store a large amount of data and can be accessed
whenever required.

A hard disk comprises more than one circular disk placed on a rising spindle
called platters. Each platter surface coated with a magnetic coating.
RAM
RAM: It stands for Random Access Memory. It is used to store information that is
used immediately or we can say that it is a temporary memory. Computers bring
the software installed on a hard disk to RAM to process it and to be used by the
user. Once, the computer is turned off, the data is deleted. With the help of RAM,
computers can perform multiple tasks like loading applications, browsing the
web, editing a spreadsheet, experiencing the newest game, etc. It allows you to
modify quickly among these tasks, remembering where you’re in one task once
you switch to a different task. It is also used to load and run applications, like
your spreadsheet program, answers commands, like all edits you made within
the spreadsheet, or toggle between multiple programs, like once you left the
spreadsheet to see the email. Memory is nearly always actively employed by
your computer. It ranges from 1GB – 32GB/64GB depending upon the
specifications.

ROM
ROM: It stands for Read-Only Memory. The data written or stored in these
devices are non-volatile, i.e, once the data is stored in the memory cannot be
modified or deleted. The memory from which will only read but cannot write it.
This type of memory is non-volatile. The information is stored permanently during
manufacture only once. ROM stores instructions that are used to start a
computer. This operation is referred to as bootstrap. It is also used in other
electronic items like washers and microwaves. ROM chips can only store a few
megabytes (MB) of data, which ranges between 4 and 8 MB per ROM chip.

CD (Compact Disk)
The term CD ROM means "Compact Disk Read-Only Memory." A CD-ROM is a
CD which is read by a computer system with an optical drive. "ROM", as its name
implies the data on the disk is in the form of "read-only," which means the user
can read the data only; they cannot erase or modify it.

Due to this feature and its storage capacity, CD-ROMs are an amazing media
design to data storage and transformation in the world of computer science and
its application.
At the time of launching CD-ROMs, it could store around 600 MB of data/data,
however now they can store up to 700 MB. Compact disc ROMs share a similar
technology as sound/audio CDs, however, they are formed differently, permitting
them to store different kinds of data.

DVD
The term DVD means "Digital Versatile Disk" A DVD is a kind of optical media
used to keep digital data. It is a similar size as a CD, yet has a large storage
capacity. A few DVDs are organized explicitly for video playback, while others
may contain various kinds of data, for example, software projects and computer
data backup.
The first "DVD-Video" design was established in 1995 by a consortium of
electronics organizations like Sony, Philips, Panasonic, Toshiba, etc.

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