Data Storage: Diffent types and sizes for CIS 105 students (section #3338)
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Data storage is a very broad topic and it can include many things. It can be broken down into two main categories: magnetic disk and optical disk. Magnetic disk can either be a floppy disk or a hard disk. The floppy disk holds 1.44 megabytes and is 3.5 inches in diameter. A hard disk can vary in capacity and size. Smaller hard disk mean faster search times but more of them are needed to have a large total capacity.
Optical disk includes such things as CD-Rom and DVD-Rom. The difference from magnetic disk is that optical disk uses laser to write its information to the disk. The average CD-Rom can hold 650 to 700 megabytes and the average DVD-Rom can hold 14.4 Gigabytes.
