Secondary Storage

Question 1

What is secondary storage?

Answer 1

Secondary storage (also known as backing storage) is non-volatile storage used to hold data that can be accessed repeatedly. Because secondary storage is further from the CPU (and often external) it takes longer to access then primary storage.

Question 2

What are the four main examples of secondary storage?

Answer 2

Magnetic storage
Optical storage
Solid state storage
Cloud storage

Question 3

Give an example of magnetic storage

Answer 3

Hard Disk Drive

Question 4

Give an example of optical storage

Answer 4

CD
DVD
Blu-Ray

Question 5

Give an example of Solid State Storage

Answer 5

Flash Drive

USB Stick

Question 6

Give an example of cloud storage

Answer 6

Dropbox

Google Drive