Week 7

  • Differentiate between storage devices and storage media
  • Describe the characteristics of an internal hard disk including capacity, platters, read/write heads, cylinders, sectors and tracks, revolutions per minute, transfer rate, and access time
  • Discuss the purpose of network-attached storage devices, external and removable hard disks, and hard disk controllers
  • Describe the various types of flash memory storage
  • Describe the characteristics of optical discs
  • Differentiate among various types of optical discs: CDs, archive discs and Picture CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs