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Lecture 4

This document provides information about different types of storage devices and units of measurement for data storage. It discusses magnetic storage devices like hard disks, floppy disks, and zip disks. It also covers optical storage devices such as CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray disks. Other storage devices mentioned include solid state drives, memory cards, magnetic stripe cards, and smart cards.

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Lecture 4

This document provides information about different types of storage devices and units of measurement for data storage. It discusses magnetic storage devices like hard disks, floppy disks, and zip disks. It also covers optical storage devices such as CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray disks. Other storage devices mentioned include solid state drives, memory cards, magnetic stripe cards, and smart cards.

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Introduction to Computing

Application

B.B.A. Ist Semester


At
Central Group of Colleges
In affiliation with
GC University Faisalabad

Instructor: Shahid Imran


Storage Unit
Term Approx. Exact Bytes
Bytes
Kilo Byte (KB) 1 Thousand 1,024

Mega Byte (MB) 1 Million 1,048,576

Giga Byte (GB) 1 Billion 1,073,741,824

Tera Byte (TB) 1 Trillion 1,099,511,627,776

Peta Byte (PB) 1 Quadrillion 1,125,899,906,842,624


Storage Devices
 Used to store data
 There are three major categories of
storage devices
 Magnetic Storage Devices
 Optical Storage Devices
 Other Storage Devices
Magnetic Storage Devices
 Hard disk
 Magnetic material used, such as Iron
Oxide or Ferrous oxide
 Having track and sectors to organize Data
 In most PCs it is fixed
 Windows Operating System divides the
disk into four areas
 Master Boot Record
 File Allocation Table (FAT)
 Root Folder
 Data Area
Tracks and Sectors on Disk
Hard Disk
 Disk Cache / Buffer
 Data Reading steps
 Controller Chip receive request for data
 Controller check cache for data
 If data not found on cache then locate it
on platters
 Controller transfer data to processor
External and Removable Hard Disk

 External Hard Disk


 Attached with USB Port or FireWire Port
 Capacity can be of 4 TB or more
 Removable Hard Disk
 Used with a drive
 Capacity up to 1TB or more
Miniature Hard Disk
 Tiny hard disks are available both
external and internal
 Used in Portable Media
 Digital Cameras
 Smart Phones
 Capacity from 1 GB to 320 GB
Miniature Hard Disk
Drive Interface Standard
 SATA (Serial Advance Technology Attachment)
 Personal Computers
 SSD
 SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
 Enterprise-Class Drives
 Servers
Magnetic Storage Devices
 Floppy Disk
 It is a portable storage medium.
 It store small size of data, it physical
size 3.5 inch with 1.44 MB maximum
storage
 Zip Disk
 Similar size to floppy disk but storage
capacity is about 100-1000MB
 Used to store backup of data
Floppy & Zip Drives
Optical Storage Devices
 Optical disk uses laser technology to
read and write data. Laser beam writes
on the surface by crating small pits in
the disk.
 CD-ROM (Compact Disk – Read Only
Memory)
 DVD – ROM (Digital Video Disc – Read Only
Memory)
 CD-R (CD Recordable),
 CD-RW (CD Rewritable)
 Blu-Ray Disk
CD & DVD
BLU-Ray Disk
Other Storage Devices
 Flash Memory
 Solid State Drives
 USB Flash Disk
 Memory Cards
 Magnetic Stripe Cards
 Smart Cards
 Micro Film
SSD (Solid State Drive)
Magnetic Stripe and Smart Cards
Micro Film

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