By: Gabe McNamara and Jaimie Hey

STORAGE AND MEMORY DEVICES

Types: Secure Digital (SD), CompactFlash (CF), Memory Stick (MS), Multimedia Card (MMC) XD-Picture Card

(XD) and Smart Media (SM).

Microdrive Storage Devices

Bytes • a byte is a unit of data that

is eight binary digits long.

• unit most computers use to represent a character such as a letter, number, or typographic symbol.

• http://www.helpwithpcs.com/courses/binary-numbers.htm

Binary conversion for10011101 = 157

For help with conversion’s go to this link.

A motherboard allows all the parts of your computer to receive power and communicate with one another.

http://www.smartcomputing.com/articles/archive/R0503/06R03/06R03.pdf?guid

Motherboard

Silicon ChipsThree steps to making silicon chips:• Converting sand to silicon• Creating a cylindrical crystal• Slicing the crystal into wafers

USB CordsUniversal serial bus, a connection technology for attaching peripheral devices to a computer, providing fast data exchange.

The goal of USB is to end all of these headaches. The

Universal Serial Bus gives you a single,

standardized, easy-to-use way to connect up

to 127 devices to a computer.

Jump Drives

JumpDrive™ is a Lexar brand name for a Universal

Serial Bus (USB) storage device, also called a USB

flash drive (UFD).

Also know as: memory stick, thumb drive, or

flash drive.

Summary

STORAGE

AND

MEMORY

DEVICES