- show understanding of the difference between: primary, secondary and off-line storage and provide examples of each, such as:
- primary: Read Only Memory (ROM) and Random Access Memory (RAM)
- secondary: hard disk drive (HDD) and Solid State Drive (SSD); off-line: Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), Compact Disc (CD), Blu-ray disc, USB flash memory and removable HDD
- describe the principles of operation of a range of types of storage device and media including magnetic, optical and solid state
- describe how these principles are applied to currently available storage solutions, such as SSDs, HDDs, USB flash memory, DVDs, CDs and Blu-ray discs
- calculate the storage requirement of a file