This is made of microchips. The state of the switches
determine if a 1, or 0 is stored.
Devices: Solid State
Drive, SD Card, USB
Memory Stick.
The capacity is okay, the speed is very fast,
the portability is very good, the durability is
very good, its very reliable and the cost is
very high
Magnetic Storage
Read/write move across the medium and
change how magnetised that part of the
medium is.
Devices : Hard
Disk Drive and
Tape Drives
The capacity is very good, the speed is
okay, the portability is okay, the durability
is not that good, the reliability is okay, and
the cost is very low
Optical Storage
A laser light created marks in a pattern on
the disk. A laser light detects where the
marks are and translates this into a
readable format.
Devices : Blu Ray, DVD
ROM and CD ROM
The capacity isn't that good, the speed is very slow, the portability is
okay, the durability is okay, it isnt very reliable and the cost is okay.
Optical storage isn't as good as the other storages.