Chapter 8

A storage medium is the physical material on which a computer keeps data, information, programs, and applications while cloud storage is another storage option, in which the actual online storage media used is transparent to the user. A storage device is the hardware that records and?or retrieves items to and from storage media. Capacity is the number of bytes a storage medium can hold and the items on a storage medium remain intact even when you turn off a computer/mobile device. There are a few types of storage medium which is hard disk, flash memory storage, memory card, USB flash drives, cloud storage and optical disk. Enterprise storage is a centralized repository for business information that provides common data management and protection, as well as data sharing functions, through connections to numerous (and possibly dissimilar) computer systems. Other types of storage is magnetic stripe card, smart card, RFID tag, microfilm and microfiche.