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STORAGE

DEVICES

GROUP MEMBERS: NICKOLAI NEWMAN, SAMUEL


SUTHERLAND, DAVID THOMPSON, MAKINI
THOMPSON, CHRISTIAN COLYARD
WHO DID WHAT?
Flash Memory/Solid State - Makini

ROM, Optical Disk - Samuel

Magnetic Media - Nickolai

RAM, Cloud Storage - David

PowerPoint Design and Presentation - Christian


WHAT ARE STORAGE
DEVICES?
Storage Devices are hardware components which are used to
storing, porting and extracting data. There are four distinctive
characteristics that are used to compare storage devices:

1. Storage Capacity - How much data a device can store


2. Access Speed - The time taken to access a drive on the
computer
3. Access Method- How data is written or read from a
storage medium. This can be sequential, index-sequential,
direct or random access.
4. Portability- Refers to the ability of a storage device to be
transported from one computer to another.
TYPES OF STORAGE DEVICES

PRIMARY SECONDARY
Also known as the internal Storage devices that serve
memory, this is the section as an addition to the
of computer memory that computer’s main memory,
can be directly accessed by which enable the
the CPU and holds a permanent storage of data.
program’s instructions, These devices are
inputs and outputs. It is peripheral devices.
generally smaller capacity
and has faster access
speed than secondary
storage.
PRIMARY
STORAGE
PRIMARY STORAGE DEVICES

RAM:
RAM stands for Random Access Memory. It
stores the current instructions and data that
the computer is using.

• RAM is read-write memory, meaning RAM


can store new data.

• RAM is volatile- if the computer is


switched off or electricity goes off, the
data stored in the RAM will be lost.
PRIMARY STORAGE
DEVICES CONT’D
ROM- Stands for Read-Only
Memory. It stores instructions for
tasks like booting.

• ROM is read-only, this means


instructions can not be
changed.
• ROM is non-volatile, this means
if the computer is switched off
or power is lost, the data
stored in ROM will not be lost.
SECONDARY
STORAGE
SECONDARY STORAGE
DEVICES

There are four main types of secondary storage devices. These


include:

1. Magnetic Storage (eg. floppy disks, magnetic tape, hard


drives)
2. Optical Storage (eg. CD, DVD, Blu-Ray)
3. Flash Memory/ Solid State Drive (eg. memory card, usb
flash drive)
4. Cloud Storage (eg. ICloud, Google Drive, OneDrive)
MAGNETIC STORAGE

Magnetic storage is the manipulation of


magnetic fields on a medium in order to record
audio, video or other data. Some examples are
floppy disk, hard drive disk and magnetic tape.

Access Method: Direct, sequential & random


Access Speed: Fast
Portability: Highly Portable
Capacity: Varying capacity (as low as 800 Kb to
over 15 Tb), however, Floppy Disk - 1.44Mb An image of a magnetic disk.
OPTICAL DISKS

An optical disk stores data through microscopic


pits and lands burned into a smooth surface by
a laser. These are invisible to the human eye.
Some examples of optical disks are CD, DVD
and Blu-ray.

Access Method: Sequential Access


Access Speed: Slow
Portability: Highly Portable
An image of a DVD.
Capacity: High capacity (500 MB in CD to 18
GB in DVD)
FLASH/SOLID STATE
MEMORY
Flash memory is an electronically manipulated,
solid-state storage medium. It is faster than
most other secondary storage mediums, is non-
volatile, and has no moving parts. Some
examples are memory cards and USB Flash
drives.

Access Method: Direct Access


Access Speed: Fast, dependent on
generation, interface etc.
Portability: Highly Portable
Capacity: High Capacity - as low as 128MB to
An image of a solid state drive 2TB or more
(SSD).
CLOUD STORAGE
Cloud storage is a service model in which data
is transmitted and stored on remote storage
systems, where it is maintained, managed,
backed up and made available to users over a
network -- typically, the internet. Some
examples are Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive.

Access Method: Direct Access


Access Speed: Usually fast (dependent on
internet connection speed)
Portability: accessible on any electronic
device with an internet connection.
Capacity: Infinite (Usually free of cost up to a
certain amount)
RESOURCES

● Information Technology for CSEC: CXC study guide. (2019). .


OXFORD UNIV Press.

● https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/definition/cloud-
storage

● https://www.unitrends.com/blog/secondary-storage

● https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-ram-and-
rom/

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