KISHICHAND CHELLARAM COLLEGE

BACHELOR OF BANKING AND INSURANCE

SUBJECT : COMPUTER GROUP NO : 7

Backing Devices

List of Members
Hiral Oza Ekta Singh Anam Mukadam Divya Kanungo Anusha Shetty 32 49 31 4 48

Introduction
What is a Backing Device?
Backing storage devices are where you can store data permanently. The hardware that stores the data are called backing storage media.

The data stored on backing storage media can either accessed randomly or sequentially.

Unit Of Backing Devices

Bit(b) : The smallest unit of data Byte(B) : 1byte = 8bits Kilobyte(KB) : 1kb =1024bytes Megabyte(MB) : 1MB = 1024kb

Gigabyte(GB) : 1GB = 1024MB

Terabyte : 1terabyte =1024GB

Device
Floppy Disk Drive CD-ROM drive CD Rewriter

Media
Floppy Disk CD-ROM CD-R CD-RW Flash ROM DVD-ROM DVD-R

Approx Capacity
1.44Mb

Access
Random

700Mb

Random

USB Flash Drive DVD-ROM Drive DVD Rewriter

1 - 8Gb

Random

4.7Gb - 16Gb

Random

DVD-RW

Magnetic Tape Drive Hard Disk Drive

DAT

up to 72GB

Random

Hard Disk

up to 5Tb

Random

Magnetic Disk Diskettes

Hard Disk

Floppy Disk

Floppy Disk
A disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and

flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles. A typical 5.25 inch floppy disk can hold 360kb or 1.2mb 3.5inch floppies can store 760kb, 1.2mb or 1.44 mb of data.

Hard Disk
Hard disks are built into computer systems. It can store anywhere from 20 MBto more than 200GB. Hard Disk are 10 to 100 times faster than floppy disks.