ICT Chapter 3 Activity
ICT Chapter 3 Activity
CHAPTER 3
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ACTIVITY
Aleeya Kayleigh Jia-Yi Lara Zi Yi
WHAT IS OPTICAL DEVICES?
MEMORY CARD
Uses : Store files on digital cameras , mobile
phones , mp3 players
Advantages : Very small , robust
Disadvantages : Expensive , smaller storage
capacities
MAGNETIC DEVICES
Advantages
Magnetic tape drives Inexpensive
What are magnetic tape drives? Robust technology and
Data on magnetic tapes are read large data capacity
from or written to by a read/ write Fast data transfer rate
head in the magnetic tape storage
device/
Data is read from the tape using Disadvantages
serial access
Best used for offline or batch
Slow data access time
processing because it uses serial
access
Uses While updating, another
motion picture production companies tape is needed to store the
record their footage on magnetic final updated version
tape
Used in holding data from scientific Affected by magnetic
experiments that produce mass fields which can corrupt
quantities of data.
data
MAGNETIC DEVICES
Hard Disk Drives (HDD) Advantages
What is hard disk drive? Fast data transfer
Most common method of rate and access time
storing data Large memory
Data is stored on a digital
format on the magnetic capacity
surface of the hard disk,
called platters Disadvantages
Accessed using direct
access/ random access Can be easily
Uses damaged
Main secondary storage
device to store operating
Have many moving
system and system software parts so it may not be
Used in real-time systems like reliable and noisy
robots and online systems
MAGNETIC DEVICES
Portable hard disk drives/
Advantages
external hard disk drive
Fast data transfer
Basically HDDs but rate and access time
external and can be Can be used to
connected to the transfer info to
computer by USB computers
Uses
Used as a way of Disadvantages
transferring data Easily damaged
between computer Data transfer is not
Used as a backup as fast as HDD
system