COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES

COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICE

THE MOST COMMON STORAGE DEVICES ARE THE MORE UNCOMMON STOREGE DEVICES ARE

FLOPPY DISKS

ZIP DISKS

FLASH DRIVE

MEMORY STICK

SMART CARDS

Plastic discs are usually square with a silver or black piece sliding top. Have 144 million bytes.

They look like a floppy disk, but they are a Little thicker. This disk also comes in a variety of colors and holds about 200 MB of data.

They are very small in size, but they can hold anywhere between 256 MB and 3 GB of material on them.

This is a rectangular shaped disk that is used mostly with digital cameras and notebook computers. They hold approximately 128 MB as well.

These are the size of an ATM cart. When inserted into a smart card reader, they can read and update data for you.

CD +RW

CD + R INTERNET HARD DRIVE REMOVABLE HARD DRIVE

Is a compact disc rewritable difference is why you write on disc veses many want. A CD +RW has about 650 MB.

is a recordable compact disc that can be used to record an audio recording bes I could not rewrite or delete anything.

This one is a service on the internet that provides storage space to computer users. This service offers about 25 MB of space.

This is a disk drive in which a plastic or metal case surrounds the hard drive.

DVD + R MICRO DRIVE These drives have a space of about 4, 7 GB and very useful for recording movies. SMART MEDIA DISC

This is a square disk that has 1 GB of space and is used with cameras and handheld computer

This is a square disk that has 2 GB to about 128 MB of space on it. Its used with digital cameras handheld computers and photo printers