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Chapter 4
Lesson Outcomes
Why I should know about this chapter?
o Not right secondary storage will make your computer slow, digital
camera won’t take pictures and your phone won’t be able to run apps.
Lesson Outcomes
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:
o Differentiate between primary and secondary storage.
o Identify the important characteristics of secondary storage including media, capacity, storage
devices and access speed.
o Describe hard-disk platters, tracks, sectors, cylinders and head crashes.
o Compare internal and external hard drives.
o Compare performance enhancements including disk caching, RAID, file compression and file
decompression.
o Define optical storage including compact discs, digital versatile discs and Blu-ray discs.
o Define solid-state storage including solid-state drives, flash memory cards and USB drives.
o Define cloud storage and cloud storage services.
o Describe mass storage, mass storage devices, enterprise storage systems and storage are
networks.
o Discuss the other types of storage – magnetic stripe card, smart card, RFID tag, microfilm and
microfiche
o Identify/suggest secondary storage for each category of user
Storage
Storage • holds data, instructions and
information for future use
Storage medium
• the physical material on which a computer keeps data, instructions, and information
Storage device
• the computer hardware that records and/or retrieves items to and from storage media
• involves two processes:
Technique Description
Disk catching Uses cache and anticipates data needs
Solid-state drives
o Faster and more durable than hard disks
o Access to slash memory or solid state storage
Solid-state drive
• a removable flash
memory device
that you insert and
remove from a slot
in a computer,
mobile device, or
card reader/writer
cards: microSDHC
microSDXC
xD Picture Card
Memory Stick PRO Duo
M2 (Memory Stick Micro)
USB Flash
Drives
• plug into a USB port
on a computer or
mobile device
Access Speed
File Security
Cloud Storage Service Companies
Cloud Storage- Making IT Work for You
Using a cloud storage service makes it easy to upload and share files
with anyone.
A CD-RW is an
erasable
multisession disc
Optical Discs
RAID
Network attached storage (NAS)
Storage area network (SAN)
Tape
Enterprise Storage
Enterprise Storage
RAID
• a magnetically coated
ribbon of plastic
capable of storing
large amounts of data
and information
• A tape drive reads and
writes data and
information on a tape
Other Types of Storage
Magnetic stripe card
• contains a magnetic stripe that
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Smart card
• stores data on an integrated
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Other Types of Storage
RFID tag
• consists of an antenna and a memory
chip that contains the information to be
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transmitted via radio waves
1. Compare primary storage and secondary storage, and discuss the most
important characteristics of secondary storage.
2. Discuss hard disks including density, platters, tracks, sectors, cylinders, head
crashes, internal, external, and performance enhancements.
3. Discuss solid-state storage including solid-state drives, flash memory, and
USB drives.
4. Discuss optical disks including pits, lands, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray, and hi def.
5. Discuss cloud computing and cloud storage.
6. Describe mass storage devices including enterprise storage systems, file
servers, network attached storage, RAID systems, organizational cloud
storage, and storage area network systems.