Secondary

storage devices
SAVNOOR SINGH
 Definitions
• Memory / Storage devices –Physical devices used to store
information or data temporarily or permanently

• Primary storage / memory - An inbuilt memory that stores data.

It holds only the data which the computer is currently working on

• Secondary Storage / memory (Auxiliary memory) - The external

memory of computer that stores data outside the computer in
external storage devices
 Computer
Memory

Primary Secondary
Memory Memory

Blue Ray
RAM ROM CD DVD Pen Drive
Disk
 Common secondary storage devices

FLOPPY DISK HARD DRIVE CD DVD BLU RAY PEN DRIVE /

DISC FLASH DRIVE
 Hard disk

• Invented by IBM in 1956

• Most commonly used form of secondary memory

• Also known as magnetic storage device

• 2 types
• internal hard disk (non portable)
• external hard disk (portable)

• Can store large amount of data up to 8 TB

 Floppy Disc / floppy diskette

• Invented by IBM engineers led by Alan

Shugart in 1971

• Were used commonly in the late 20th

century

• Had comparatively smaller storage capacity

(up to 1.44 MB )

• obsolete nowadays
CD (compact disc )

• Invented by James Russel in 1979

• 2 types
• CD-R ( Compact Disc Recordable)
• CD-RW (Compact Disc Rewritable)

• Can be read using a CD ROM drive

• can store up to 700 MB of data

DVD ( Digital Versatile Disc)

• Invented in 1995

• Several types
• DVD-R
• DVD-RW
• DVD-RAM
• DVD-ROM

• Larger storage capacity (upto 4.7 GB)

• Can be read using DVD drive or DVD player

 Blu Ray disc

• Invented in 2002

• larger storage capacity then a CD or DVD

(upto 25 GB-single side; 50 GB-double
side)

• Can be read using Blu ray drive or Blu ray

disc player
USB (universal serial bus )

• Invented by Dov Moran, M-Systems in 2000

• Also called pen drives or flash memory sticks

• small in size

• can store data from 2 GB-16 GB

Take home message

• Secondary storage device – External memory

• Most commonly used - Hard Drive

• Obsolete – Floppy disc

• Smallest size – USB drive

• Others – CD, DVD, Blu ray disc

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