Memory, Storage Devices and Media
A. show understanding of the difference between: primary, secondary and off-line storage and provide examples of each, such as, primary: Read Only Memory (ROM), Random Access Memory (RAM) and DVD-RAM; secondary: hard disk drive (HDD) and Solid State Drives (SSDs); off-line: Digital Versatile Disks (DVDs), Compact Disks (CDs), Blu-ray, USB flash memory and removable disks
B. describe the principles of operation of a range of types of storage devices and media including magnetic, optical and solid state
C. describe how these principles are applied to currently available storage solutions, such as SSDs, hard disk drives, USB flash memory, DVDs, CDs and Blu-ray
D. calculate the storage requirement of a file