Chapter 4 - Secondary Storage!
Chapter 4 - Secondary Storage!
Chapter 4 - Secondary Storage!
Chapter 4
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.
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 •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:
Reading is the process of transferring
items from a storage medium into memory
Technique Description
Disk catching Uses cache and anticipates data needs
Solid- USB
Memory
state flash
cards
drives drives
Solid–state devices (SSDs) have no moving parts
Solid-state drives
o Faster and more durable than hard disks
o Access to slash memory or solid state storage
•a removable flash
memory device
that you insert and
remove from a slot
in a computer,
mobile device, or
card reader/writer
memory miniSD
microSD
cards: microSDHC
microSDXC
xD Picture Card
Memory Stick PRO Duo
M2 (Memory Stick Micro)
Access Speed
File Security
Using a cloud storage service makes it easy to upload and share
files with anyone.
A CD-RW is an
erasable
multisession disc
A DVD-ROM is a high-capacity optical disc on which
users can read but not write on or erase
RAID
Network attached storage (NAS)
Storage area network (SAN)
Tape
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
Magnetic stripe card
•contains a magnetic stripe
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Smart card
•stores data on an integrated
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RFID tag
• consists of an antenna and a memory
chip that contains the information to
be transmitted via radio waves
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