Friday, 24 January 2014

Backing storage

Types

Disks are plates where data is encoded. There are two types of disks which are magnetic disks and the other is optical disks. Magnetic disks are data that is encoded by microscopic magnetized needles of the surface, they come as floppy disks, hard disks and removable cartridges. Optical disks are basically the same as magnetic disks but the data is encoded by laser, they come as CD-ROM, WORMS.

Universal Serial Bus Drives- flash memory storage device. USB supports data transfer rates of 12 Mbps. A USB port can be used to 127 devices, such as mice and keyboards.

Optical media

Portable devices

Portable devices means that it is light weight such as a laptop
 
 
 

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