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secondary storage, solid state - Coggle Diagram
secondary storage
magnetic
advantages
faster than optical
relatively cheap per GB
huge capacity
disadvantages
can be damged due to magnetic fields
due to moving parts it will eventually wear out
limited nr of read/write cycles
examples
hard rive
magnetic tape
optical
advantages
portable storage medium that takes up little physical state
immune to magnetic fields
cheap if less than 10gb
disadvantages
expensive when storing over 10Gb
slow speeds compared to a hard drive
easily damaged
disadvantages
expensive if storing TB
solid state