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Secondary Devices

The document discusses the need for secondary storage devices due to the limitations of primary memory, particularly its small capacity and volatility. It lists common secondary storage devices such as hard disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and Blu-ray disks, detailing their storage capacities and functionalities. The document highlights the advantages of each device type, including data storage capabilities and access methods.

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Secondary Devices

The document discusses the need for secondary storage devices due to the limitations of primary memory, particularly its small capacity and volatility. It lists common secondary storage devices such as hard disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and Blu-ray disks, detailing their storage capacities and functionalities. The document highlights the advantages of each device type, including data storage capabilities and access methods.

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SECONDARY

DEVICES
----PRESENTED BY
Name:- Ritika Mondal
Class:- IX
Section:- B
Roll No:- 31
Session :- 2025-26
Need of Secondary Devices
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The primary memory, due to its small capacity, cannot store
large amount of data. Moreover RAM is a volatile memory and
cannot store the data permanently.
►
Thus secondary storage devices are used to store information
until its gets deleted or overwritten by the user.
The commonly
01 used secondary
storage devices :-
●
Hard Disk And ●
CD ROM
02 external Hard disk 03

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Flash Drive 04
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Blue-Ray disk
HARD DISK AND EXTERNAL HARD DISK
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The most common storage device for storing a large amount of
data. It’s called the HD or HDD (Hard disk drive) or Winchester
Disk.
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Was first introduced by by an IBM company led by Rey Johnson
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It’s hard and flexible due to a coating of magnetic material.
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It has a large storage capacity. It can store up to 8TB of data.
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The disk rotates at a very high speed, varying from 5400 to
15,000 rpm (rotations per minute)
CD-ROM
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A CD-ROM stands Compact Disc-Read only Memory.
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It is a type of optical disk capable of storing a large amount of data,
information, software, etc.
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The data from a CD can be accessed using a CD drive.
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It comes in 2 sizes: the standard CD with 120 mm diameter ans mini
CD with 80 mm diameter
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There are 2 types of CD-ROMS:- CD-R (Compact Disk Recordable)
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and CD-RW (Compact Disk Rewritable)
DVD( DIGITAL
VERSATILE DISK)

DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disk. It can store
high-quality video,audio and other kinds of digital
informtaion

It can store 6 times more data than a CD and is 15
times faster.

It can hold 4.7 GB to 17 Gb of data,

It is available in many versions like: DVD-R
(records data only once), DVD-RW (can be erased
and recorded may times)
BLU RAY DISK
Blu ray disk is a new optical disc format that
is rapidly replacing a dvd because of the
following reason:-
►
Largest capacity
►
Maximum Picture resolution
►
Uncompressed surround sound
►
Backward Compatibility
►
Disc robustness
THANK YOU !!

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