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Memory and Storage

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Capacity

Describes how much data can be stored on a device

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Durability

A quality of a storage device that will continue to work if dropped

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Flash

Memory types used by SSDs USB drives and SD cards

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Magnetic

Type of storage device which included traditional hard drives

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Optical

Type of storage device which involves the use of lasers to read and write data

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Portability

A measure of how readily a storage device can be moved from one computer to another

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RAM

main memory of a computer that stores data, application and the operating system while in use

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Reliability

A measure of how much you can depend on a storage device to keep functioning

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ROM

Type of non-volatile memory that holds crucial information such as the boot program

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Secondary Storage

Non-volatile memory which is not directly accessed by the CPU

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Solid State

Type of storage device that does not use any moving parts

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Speed

A measure of how quickly data can be read from or written to a device

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Storage Media

An umbrella term to describe hard drives CDs, flash drives

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Virtual Memory

Type of memory that combines the computer's RAM with temporary space on the hard disk

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