Secondary Storage Devices

You ever just wake up one day and think, "I need to write a blog about Secondary Storage Devices"? Yes? me too.

    Text Book Definition:

      A secondary storage device is any non-volatile storage device that can be either internal or external to the computer.  Data that is less frequently accessed are usually transported to the secondary storage device to free up space on the primary storage device enabling the computer to run better and faster. Additionally, they don’t directly interact with applications and are not under control of the CPU. 

There are many different kinds of secondary storage devices ranging from ancient technology (CDs) to the most commonly used USB and HDDs to the latest cloud storage. Crappy pictures taken from google can be seen below:

Optical Discs - Compact Disc (CD) - Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) - Blu-ray Discs (BD)

Solid-State Storage - Solid-state Drives (SSD) - Flash Memory Cards - USB drive                      And Cloud (The physical part)