Week 10: Storage Devices

•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 cloud storage and explain its advantages

•Describe the characteristics of optical discs

•Differentiate among various types of optical discs: CDs, archive discs and Picture CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs

•Identify the uses of tape, magnetic stripe cards, smart cards, microfilm and microfiche, and enterprise storage

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