nescussion Powe Barcodes are limited in terms af the amount of date that canbe store, whicris wy quicrespome [OR cades are now being waed hor iteens af data beyond 2 string of letters, ed ures. Pen drive ‘Apen drives anickname fora USB lash drive: itis a small data storage device about these of a thumb which stores data on flash memory ond includes an integralid USB interface, The USB interface means thar the Hash dive ls recngnitable ofall computers with a US port ad therefore data can be transported easily between computers. Flash memory very fast and sa the imiting factors the speed of the USB port. Ax atlash drive does ‘nat have any moving pars tis sale ro wanspovt, albough its sige ineans that con be easily lost tale dows not rely (on magnetising and theredore isnot susceptible to damage ‘fitcomesin contact with a strang magnetic held, Portable hard disk drive ‘Hard disk drives mese introduced eaulier in this: chapter. As ‘well aan internal HOD, its possible to have an exten al HOB. Anexternat HDD can be connected ta thecamputer venga USB or External Serial Advanced Technology Athichment {eSATA) port. An extemal HOO can store alot more data than a USB flash drive, but it is more susceptible ta damage due tot having moving partsand Its vulnerability to strong magnetic fields Blu-ray dise drive /ABtu-ray cise fs an optical storage medium, Its the same site and shape as. compact disc (CD) and digital versatile ac (EVD), The Bluray disc was introduced because it can store HD video and thereforea whole film can be stored on the Bluray disc A single layer Blusray dlicean store 2568 af data andl a dual: layer Blu-ray disc ean store SO GB of data, This compares to a (VD which can store 4.7 GB lf data and a:C which can stare 700 MB af cata Vor BO minutes of aud) A Blu-ray disc drive Is required to read data from or verite data to a Bluray dis Muses lasers to read data that has teen written in ‘pits: # basic Bluray dist drive can read data at 4,5 MBPs, whereasa 16x Blu-ray’ rive can toad data at T2 MB/s. This is much slower tham a MDD bul the dises are wery cheap to purchase compared with awhale HDD, ‘Astandard tu: ray dsc is wad only and used to distribute HED rmovies. Hawes ts posrible to buy necardabe (Blu ray) discs that can be witten to once and ate seful for archive.and backup purposes, orrewritabile (Blu-ray! discs ‘which can be rewritten to and erased making them useful (or both backup and data transfer purposes DISCUSHION POLE Find out about thanent advancement in aptica stornge, ‘dhe botograpihie versatile dic PVD}, Memory card ‘Amemory card is flash empty on a small card. They ane Typically used in digital camoras,etigital vieleo cameras and mobile phones. They take up wery ite space so ane well sulted to fitting na asmall device, swell as being portable so that datacan be transfered to a computer. "There are many ferent formats of cards, but mast devices favour Secure Digital (50) and miceuSD cards. Micr0SO.cards ane only 15% 11 0.7 ren isis. ASK: Categotise each of the intemaland external hardware devices into biput, output and storage devices. ‘Storage devices Reitratier ‘The main purposeeta store devices lo store data Soltwre that ean be uned by acoenpute. A storage device thaw as secondary storage, wtih I nan-valatie and s2.data isnt ont hen the computers armed of ‘There are many reasoné why 2 user may vant to save data to seeandary storage: “when erating 9 doacurment, a usar i key ta want to make changes to that document in the Future and therefore itis necessary to save It to secondary storage + theuser may want somebody die ta edit er read the document and 6 itwil hesaved to secondary storage wallow the nerwomta do that + users are lial t6 want to keep documents for archive purpeases so thoy ean Be refered eo inthe fubare