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Backing Storage

This document discusses various backing storage devices and media. It describes floppy disks, hard disks, CDs, DVDs, tape drives, and USB flash drives. It explains how each stores data and provides access to files, whether randomly/directly or sequentially. Larger capacity media like hard disks, DVDs, and tapes can store more data but have slower access times than smaller media like floppy disks and flash drives. Storage requirements depend on the application and type of files it handles.

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Backing Storage

This document discusses various backing storage devices and media. It describes floppy disks, hard disks, CDs, DVDs, tape drives, and USB flash drives. It explains how each stores data and provides access to files, whether randomly/directly or sequentially. Larger capacity media like hard disks, DVDs, and tapes can store more data but have slower access times than smaller media like floppy disks and flash drives. Storage requirements depend on the application and type of files it handles.

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Backing Storage

Basic
Backing Storage Devices
 Backing storage devices allow us to store programs and
data so that we can use them later
 Floppy Disk drive
 Tape drive
 CD-ROM drive
 Hard Disk drive
 CD-R, CD-RW drives
 DVD, DVD-R drives
 USB Flash drive
Backing Storage Media
 Backing Storage Media is the material used in each
device
MEDIA DEVICE
Floppy Disk Floppy Disk Drive
Hard Disk Hard Disk Drive
CD-ROM CD-ROM Drive
Magnetic Tape Tape Drive
USB Flash Stick Flash ROM Drive
Floppy Disk
 A floppy disk is made out
of flexible plastic and is coated
with magnetic material.
 The plastic disk is inside
a protective case.
 Floppy disks are very easily damaged
 They have a very small capacity (1.44Mb)
Hard Disk
 Solid disk (made of metal or very hard plastic)
 Permanently fixed inside the computer (or close
by it in its own box)
 A hard disk is not portable like a floppy disk.

READ/WRITE HEADS
DISK
Magnetic Tape
 Stores lots of data as they have a large capacity
 Reading from and writing to magnetic tape is
much slower than using a magnetic disk.
 Cheaper than storing data on magnetic disk.
CD ROM
 High capacity storage medium
 Data is stored on surface of the CD in a series of pits
 Pits are read by shining laser light onto the surface
of the disk.
 CD rotates at a very high speed and laser beam is
reflected off the disks surface.
 Data cannot be written to CD ROM once it has been
produced
CD-R (Recordable)

 Data is written onto the disk using a special disk


drive unit.
 The unit burns a permanent pattern into the
surface of the disk using a high precision laser
beam.
 CD-R disks can only be written to until the disk is
full
CD-RW (Rewriteable)

 Data is written and rewritten onto the disk using a


special disk drive unit.
 The unit uses a high powered laser beam with 3
states
 High – used to record data
 Medium – used to erase data
 Low – used to read the data
 CD-RW (CD-Rewritable) disks can be written and
rewritten many times
DVD ROM

 Stores greater amounts of information (4.7 – 17


gigabytes)
 A DVD can store more information because:
 Pits are smaller
 Can have two layers on each side and be double
sided
 DVD-ROM cannot be written to once it has been
produced
DVD-R & DVD -RW

 DVD-R (Recordable)
 Write once medium
 Disk can only be written to until the disk is full

 DVD-RW (Rewritable)
 Disks can be written and rewritten many times
USB Flash Drive
 USB – Universal Serial Bus
 Device used to store data, such as picture and movie files
 USB Flash Drive is a Solid State Device as there are no
moving parts
 Storage capacities of between 16Mb to 2Gb
Types of Access
 Random (Direct) Access
 Ability to locate data straight away, wherever it is
stored and open it up
 Fast access to files

 Sequential Access
 Retrieving data in the order that it was stored
 Slower access to files
Access Devices
 Random (Direct) Access
 FloppyDisk Drive
 Hard Disk Drive
 CD-ROM Drive

 Sequential Access
 Tape Drive
Storage requirements for Different
Applications
 Different Applications have different storage requirements
 Space taken up by the Application
• More or Less fixed when installed
• Also depends on Installation option
• Basic
• Full
• Custom
• Size of application may grow with
• Updates
• new versions
• extra features – plug-ins
Storage requirements for Different
Applications Continued
 Space taken up by any files produced using the application
 Depends on type of Application
 Multimedia Files require large storage space
• Music
• Video
• High Quality Graphics
 One hour of digital video = 13 Gb
 One way to save space is Compression

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