and a single Input for line level devices blue sachet. I higher quality or surround sqund is fequited, chen itis ‘ustmlly necessary to have a separate sound catch which connects to one of the motherboards expansion slots This will enable multiple aurputs for (rant, rear, cent sub-wooler speahers ane! Hard disk drive Ahad disk itv (HD) ecanclary storage fora comuter duerto Is relate low cost per MB (megabyte. 2015, hard disk drives could store upto ATE (terabytes) of data with access speeds of 6GB/s. The hard disk drive consists of two main parts: the device that isthe eiectranies which stote the data, and the disk that isthe medium onto which che dats isstored, The ot dive} Includes a resd-write hesd which sits at the end of an access arm and magnetises sectors on the cick (platter the mast common form of devices ‘Acooes oxen hak pana) Figure 0M Aard disk There i usually more thar ane platter and therefore there wil be several nead-wsrite heads for each sie ot each platteras shawn in Figure 2.08. Each platter wall have tracks and each track will be split into sector's, Th tracks thot are in the:same position an each platter form a cylinder. Wheraver possible, a computer will attempt to store data on a single cylinder asthis requires the least atcess arm movement and the access arm isthe slowe part of the hard ¢ Data signed an a hard disk Ii non-votalle. This means thal when the computer is tuned off and there is no power then the data will til he safely smacecton the df diss. Hard discs can be Internally connected Lo the Computer using & Seal Advanced Technology Altachment (SATA) or Integrated Drive Elec tronic cable Figure 2.05 - Multiple platters, 6 DISCUSSION PONT Doouknaw wherethe pirase "my computarhas crashed" ‘comes roa it eaten to when te readswite eadcrashes lntoa platter ara causes damage in the hard ik, moaning that date and programs can no longer Be cetrheve Solid state drive ‘Asolid state drive (S80) is anther secondary storage device that is non-volatile, However, there are na moving parts and the data is stored onin flash emory, His also Nat necessary in store-data in the samacyinderin onder to maximize sccess spect asthe data can bestored anywhere on the flash memary-and access speeds will nat be affected: SSPs are-also non-magnetic and sp are: not susceptible to daniage fiom to close, strang magpetic fields Inn2015, SSDs could store upto 8B, but clue to thie newer Technology were far more expensive than HDDs and west rome comman in capacities of 128, 256 of 512 GB. SSt have accesé speetis of around 400-600 MBps two times fastertharva HOO). This mans they are uses in higher pecforrnance computers. A frequent compromise betiveen speed, capacity and price is to have a smaller 550 to store the operating system and sotware to of access) and use logger HOO tn store data. $505 also requite-s bat less power than MODs and wo are referred in lobton afd tablet computers