STORAGE DEVICES

What is a storage device?

• Alternatively referred to as digital storage, storage, storage media,
or storage medium, a storage device is any hardware capable of
holding information either temporarily or permanently.
• There are two types of storage devices used with computers:
a primary storage device, such as RAM, and a secondary
storage device, such as a hard drive. Secondary storage can
be removable, internal, or external.
Examples of computer storage:
• Magnetic storage devices - Today, magnetic storage is one of the
most common types of storage used with computers. This technology
found mostly on extremely large HDDs or hybrid hard drives.
• Floppy diskette
• Hard drive
• Magnetic strip
• SuperDisk
• Tape cassette
• Zip diskette
Floppy diskette
• A floppy disk drive, also called FDD or FD for short, is a computer disk
drive that enables a user to save data to removable diskettes.
Although 8" disk drives were first made available in 1971, the first real
disk drives used were the 5 1/4" floppy disk drives, which were later
replaced with the 3 1/2" floppy disk drives.
• A 5 1/4" floppy disk was capable of storing between 360 KB and 1.2
MB of data, and the 3 1/2" floppy disk was capable of storing
between 360 KB and 1.44 MB of data. For both sizes of floppy disk,
the amount of data that could be stored was dependent on whether
the disk was single or double sided, and whether the disk was regular
or high density.
PICTURE OF FLOPPY DISK DRIVE