1. A+ Hardware
Section 1.1 Storage Devices
Made By : Gagandeep Singh
2. What you learn today
CompTIA A+220-701 , Section 1.1
Categories of Storage Devices and Backup
- FDD
- HDD
* Solid State Vs Magnetic
- Optical Drives
* CD/DVD/RW/ BLUERAY
- Removable Storage
* Tape Drive
* Solid State (e.g. Thumb drive, flash, SD cards, USB)
* External CD-RW and Hard Disk Drive
* Hot-Swappable device and Non Hot-Swappable device.
3. FDD- Floppy Disk Drive
4. FDD- Floppy Disk Drive
8 inch Floppy Drive
5.25 inch Floppy Drive
3.5 inch Floppy Drive (1.44 Megabyte, 90mm)
5. FDD
Floppy disk drive (FDD) is removable storage utilizing a thin,
flexible magnetic storage medium, encased in a plastic shell to
read and write data.
6. While over time drive capacities have changed, todays
standard floppy disk drive size is 1.44 MB. 7. Floppy disk drives
are quickly going out of standard use, due to the higher capacity,
and much cheaper, writeable compact disks.
