The Different Media Storage Devices And Options

. These storage devices are competent in storing large amounts of data such as documents, pictures, music and films in a relatively small space. These media devices come in many sizes and shapes. The advancement started from the flimsy 64 kilobyte floppy disc with dimensions 5 inches which eventually developed into today's pen drives that have an astounding capacity 80GB or more. Also, the technology used for the data storage into them is also different from one another. These storage devices are one of the most important components of the computer system. Also, these media storage devices can be classified into removable and fixed or non-removable types of storage.

One of the renowned and essential permanent storage devices is the hard disk which is capable of storing huge amount of data, but it comes with a disadvantage of not being portable. Its capacity for storage has gone up with each passing years. Even ten years back a 2 GB hard disk was considered to be of huge capacity, but today you can find 1 TB or 1024 GB hard disk in the market. As technology has developed, more new, powerful but small media storage devices are coming in the market, an external hard disk is also the result of technology advancement. It can be easily connected via the USB port to your computer. This has more or less blurred the border line between portable and fixed devices.

Optical Compact Discs come in two forms: the recordable and the re-writable. CD-R and CD-RW media storage gadgets are removable types and have a capability to store up to 800 MB of files. Digital Video Discs, or more commonly DVDs, uses a more advanced laser technology to encrypt data into a disk the same size used by CDs, but can store up to 12 times the data that a CD can, roughly around 5 GB. The most recent advancement in disk media storage technology is the Blu-ray Disc (BD), a high-density optical disc format that can store 70 times as much information as the CD can, which can be around 50 GB at least.

The most wonderful of recent storage devices is the Pen Drive. This device is commonly known as a Flash Drive or a USB Drive. The flash drive could be linked very effortlessly to the USB Port on the PC or laptop; once attached, it gets recognized as a new external drive in the computer it is connected to. USB flash drives are now often used for the same reasons as floppy disks were - novelty and convenience. But they are undoubtedly smaller, faster, and are more durable and reliable. Not to mention that flash drive now have thousands of times a floppy disk's capacity.

The recent flash drives come with the capacity to store around 80 GB of files. Some of them also have built in MP3 player. Even at times they come with audio recorder also. Conversations and sound can be played and recorded in WAV format in these drives and then can save in it directly without the requirement to be connected to a PC. Data can be transferred, saved and deleted quite easily and simply from these drives. It is one of the most compact, user-friendly, convenient and versatile media storage devices.

by: Ferdinand Eusebio

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