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Storage Devices and Media

The document discusses various types of storage devices and media, including hard disks, optical media, flash media, and magnetic tape. Hard disks utilize spinning platters and read/write heads, while optical media is used for multimedia and can be recordable or re-writable. Flash media offers faster speeds and reliability due to its solid-state nature, whereas magnetic tape is an older technology primarily used for backups.

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Storage Devices and Media

The document discusses various types of storage devices and media, including hard disks, optical media, flash media, and magnetic tape. Hard disks utilize spinning platters and read/write heads, while optical media is used for multimedia and can be recordable or re-writable. Flash media offers faster speeds and reliability due to its solid-state nature, whereas magnetic tape is an older technology primarily used for backups.

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Storage devices and Media

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Hard disks
Hard disks are a magnetic storage media
Made up of platters that spin on a central spindle
A read/write head moves on an arm across the platter to read/write data
The amount of time taken to read/write data is influenced by:
How fast the platters spin (measured in revolutions per minute (RPM))
How fast the head moves across the platter
Used in personal computers, servers and backups
Optical media
Used with an optical storage device
All optical media is recordable (CD-R, DVD-R, BD-R)
Some optical media can be re-written (CD-RW, DVD-RW,
BD-RE)
Used for multimedia (music, games & films)
CDs DVDs Blu-ray
up to 700 MB data 4.7 GB single 25 GB single sided
sided/single layer 50 GB double sided
18 GB double
sides/double layer
Flash media
Flash media is a solid state storage media
More reliable than a hard disk as contains no
moving parts
Very fast read/write speeds
Used in mobile devices, laptops
Magnetic tape
Old technology used primarily for recording
sound
Now used to store vast amounts of
data (backups)
Very slow read/write speeds
Used for whole system backups and archives

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