Lesson 5

STORAGE
DEVICES
Prepared by: Cykee Anne A. Berja
The Secondary memory is where programs and data are
kept on a long term basis. Common secondary storage
devices are the following:
Floppy Zip Drive
Disk

Hard
Disk Tape Drive
Drive
External Memory
Optical Card
Drive Reader

USB Media
Flash Devices
Disk

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There are basically two types of disk storage for computers: magnetic and optical.

Magnetic Storage - is represented by the standard floppy and

hard disks installed in most PC systems, where the data is
recorded magnetically on rotating disks.
Optical Disc Storage - is similar to magnetic disk storage in
basic operation, but it reads and records using light instead of
magnetism.

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Floppy Disk or Diskette

An outdated storage
device consisting of
a thin disk of
flexible magnetic
storage medium.

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 Floppy Disk or Diskette

Three standard sizes of a Floppy disk are:

 
1. 8-inch floppy disk
2. 5 1/4 -inch floppy disk
3. 3 1/2 –inch 1.44 Megabytes floppy disk

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 Zip Drive

An outdated medium-capacity
removable disk storage
system which is slightly
bigger than a 3 ½-inch
floppy disk. It is 4-
inches. It holds 100
Megabytes of disk space.
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 Hard Drive
A hard drive is a storage device. It is
a sealed unit that a PC uses for
nonvolatile data storage. Nonvolatile or
semi permanent storage means that the
storage device retains the data even
when no power is supplied to the
computer.
A hard drive comes in 2 sizes for
personal computers: the 2.5 inches size
is used for laptops computers and the 9
 Hard Drive
TECHNOLOGIES USED INSIDE A HARD DRIVE

Two types of hardware technologies used inside the drive are SOLID
STATE and MAGNETIC.
Magnetic Hard Drive - A magnetic hard drive has one,
two, or more platters, or disks that stack together and
spin in unison inside a sealed metal housing. It
contains firmware to control reading and writing data to
the drive, and to communicate with the motherboard. The
top and bottom of each disk have a read/write head that
moves across the disk surface as all the disks rotate on
a spindle.
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A hard drive or floppy disk is divided into tracks and sectors. Several sectors
make one cluster.

 A TRACK is a single ring of data on one side of a disk.

 A SECTOR represent arc-shaped pieces of the track
The size of each sector and the total number of sectors on the drive determine
the drive capacity. Today’s drive capacities are usually measured in GB
(gigabytes) or TB (terabytes) each of which is 1024 gigabytes). Magnetic drives
are generally much larger in capacity than SSD drives.

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The size of each sector and the total number of sectors on the drive
determine the drive capacity. Today’s drive capacities are usually
measured in GB (gigabytes) or TB (terabytes) each of which is 1024
gigabytes). Magnetic drives are generally much larger in capacity than
SSD drives.
You need to be aware of one more technology supported by both SSD and
magnetic hard drives called S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and
Reporting Technology), which is used to predict when a drive is likely
to fail. System BIOS uses S.M.A.R.T. to monitor drive performance,
temperature and other factors. S.M.A.R.T. can be enabled and disabled
in BIOS Setup.

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 ATA -
Advanced
Technology
Attachment

A disk drive implementation that integrates the 

controller on the disk drive itself. There are several
versions of ATA, all developed by the Small Form
Factor (SFF) Committee.
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 Solid State Drive
Solid states drive (SSD), also called a solid state device (SSD), is
called solid state because it has no moving parts. The drives are
built using nonvolatile memory, which is similar to that used for USB
flash drives. Recall that this type of memory does not lose its data
even after the power is turned off. In an SSD drive, flash memory is
stored on EEPROM (Electronically Erasable Programmable Read Only
Memory) chips inside the drive housing.

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 CD and DVD ROM Drive
The CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drive are devices that
read data, music and video off of a CD
(Compact Disc) or DVD (Digital Versatile or
Video Disc). The ROM part stands for "Read
Only Memory", which means the disc can only be
read from, but not written to.

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Types of Compact Disc and DVD
 CD (CD-R, CD-RW)
 DVD (DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD+R)

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 USB Flash Disk
A USB flash drive consists of a NAND-type flash memory
data storage device integrated with a USB (Universal
Serial Bus) interface. USB flash drives are typically
removable and rewritable, much smaller than a floppy
disk (1 to 4 inches or 2.5 to 10 cm), and most USB
flash drives weigh less than an ounce.

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