GROUP 3

Capalaran, Joshua
Espuerta, Erjohn
Limba, David
Orhalo, Felix Jr.
Tradio, Bernadette
FLASH DRIVES AND MEMORY

TECHNOLOGY

USB Flash Drives are small, portable storage devices that can
be used to store and transport moderate amounts of data.
 H I S T O R Y

USB flash drives were invented at M-Systems,

April 5, 1995
an Israeli company. The product was
announced by the company in September
2000, and was first sold by IBM in 8MB
capacity starting December 15, 2000.
 TYPES

• USB 1.0 (1st generation )

• USB 2.0 (2nd generation)
• USB 3.0 (3rd generation)
 ADVANTAGES
USB flash drive are capacity and size.

Less prone to damage / Durable

A flash drive can usually endure water damage.

Cheaper/Affordable than traditional drives in small storage

capacities.
 DISADVANTAGES

CORRUPTION

Flash memory cells have a limited number of write and erase cycles before
failing.

Flash drives do not have a write-protection mechanism.

 OPTICAL STORAGE

Optical storage is any storage method that uses a laser

to store and retrieve data from optical media.

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony

and Panasonic don't seem to care. The companies have
cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a
stunning 3.3TB.
The 3.3TB media is part of Sony's second-
generation Optical Disc Archive System, a
successor to the original system launched in
2013. Sony also announced optical drives to
support the new media. The new drives are
faster than predecessors and generic Blu-ray
drives, which have notoriously slow read
and write times.

However, support remains for this form of

optical storage because of reliability. Sony
says the media will have a 100-year shelf
life, longer than other storage technology.
 H I S T O R Y

The first CDs came out in 1982 with a

capacity of 650MB, and DVDs came out in
1996 with a capacity of 4.7GB.

Today's Blu-ray media can store up to 100GB

of data, and earlier this year, Sony and
Panasonic said they will ship 300GB media
for optical archival systems in data centers.
 CD-ROM
(Compact Disc, Read-Only-Memory)

CDs have Read-Only

Memory that can hold
around 800MB of data.
Compact Disc The data cannot be
edited or deleted once its
added to the disc. CDs
are non-volatile.
 DVD Drive
Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)

DVDs gave Random-Access Memory. They can

hold up to a total of 4.7GB of data.
 HD DVD
•High-density DVD (HD-
DVD) disc can hold
around15GB of data
 Blu - Ray Disc

Blu-Ray discs are a recent replacement of DVDs. These disc can

hold from 25 – 50GB of data. A dual-layer can hold up 100GB.