Chapter 7 Storage

Storage holds data, instructions, and information for future use. A storage medium, also called secondary storage, is the physical material on which a computer keeps data, instructions, and information. Examples of storage media are hard disks, solid state drives, memory cards, USB flash drives, and smart cards. I personally choose to store all of my school work and music on a USB flash drive. I love doing that because it is extremely convenient but the problem is that it can be easily lost. Cloud storage is another storage option, in which the actual storage media is used transparent to the user. I have never stored anything personal on cloud storage. In high school I was Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper and we were required to store the pictures and stories on the cloud. I thought it was rather difficult to get the hang of and I would have rather saved things on a flash drive.