Task: Learning Journal

Open your Learning Journal by clicking on the image below

Good notes will help you organise and process data and information

Secondary storage (often also called auxiliary storage) is anything that stores data other than the temporary storage in things like RAM. In a personal computer, secondary storage usually consists of a hard disk and removable media.

Hard Disk

Optical Devices

External storage is also secondary storage. External secondary storage devices are used to:

• back up data
• add more storage space for files, photographs, videos, and so on
• transfer files between computers
• easily transport files without taking your computing device with you
• share files over a network.

Different types of non-volatile secondary storage include the following:

• magnetic storage
• optical storage:
• compact disk (CD)
• digital versatile disk (DVD)
• Blu-ray disk (BD)
• solid-state disk
• USB drive (memory stick or pen drive)
• flash memory card.

Task:

Open your student workbook at page 46 Read through the notes then complete the following task in your book.

1. Task 24

When you are finished screenshot your answer into your Learning Journal