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Chapter 8
Digital Storage
Objectives Overview
Differentiate among
Identify uses of
various types of
external hard disks
memory cards and
and RAID
USB flash drives
Describe
Discuss the benefits
characteristics of and
and uses of cloud
differentiate among
storage
types of optical discs
Identify uses of
Explain types of magnetic stripe cards,
enterprise storage smart cards, RFID
tags, and NFC tags
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Storage
• A hard disk, also called a hard disk drive (HDD) contains one
or more inflexible, circular platters that use magnetic particles
to store data, instructions, and information
Read/write Revolutions
Form factor
head per minute
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Hard Drives
A CD-RW is an
erasable
multisession disc
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Optical Discs
• Tape is a magnetically
coated ribbon of plastic
capable of storing large
amounts of data and
information
• A tape drive reads and
writes data and
information on a
magnetic tape
Characteristics of
Storage capacity
Variety of storage hard disks, SSDs,
and storage access
options external hard
times
drives, and RAID
Advantages and
Portable flash Characteristics of
various uses of
memory storage optical discs
cloud storage
Magnetic stripe
Enterprise storage cards, smart cards,
options RFID tags, and NFC
chips and tags
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Digital Storage
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