Saturday 9 April 2011

d)What is storage and devices storage?

Storage
Refers to computer components and recording media transfer.Whenever you enter data into your computer, it is referred to as input. This can be text typed in a word processing document, keywords entered in a search engine's search box, or data entered into a spreadsheet. Input can be something as simple as moving the mouse or clicking the mouse button or it can be as complex as scanning a document or downloading photos from a digital camera.
Storage devices
A computer storage device is any type of hardware that stores data. The most common type of storage device, which nearly all computers have, is a hard drive. The computer's primary hard drive stores the operating system, applications, and files and folders for users of the computer.There is two common storage :
Primary storage
Hold data in memory(RAM and ROM)
                                                          Random Access Memory(RAM)
                                                                              Read Only Memory(ROM)
Secondary storage
Holds data on hard disk,tapes and other devices requiring input/output devices.
                                                                                                     Zip disk
       Diskette
  
Pendrive
Flash Memory
                                                                        Smart Chip
 

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