Storage and Memory Devices

By: Gabe McNamara and Jaimie Hey

Types: Secure Digital (SD), CompactFlash (CF), Memory Stick (MS), Multimedia Card (MMC) XD-Picture Card (XD) and Smart Media (SM).

Uses: store music, pictures, documents and

even games. ( commonly used with a digital camera).

Costs: anywhere from $10-$400

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.

Last twenty years developed extremely.

Motherboards typically boast a wide variety of built-in features, and they directly affect a computer's capabilities and potential for upgrades.

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

Motherboard

Silicon Chips

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

silicon chip - electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a

number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit.

http://pcplus.techradar.com/node/3059

Quiz1.What is the average price for a memory card?

2.True or False: In most computer systems, a byte is a unit of data.

3.True or False: A jump drive is also commonly referred to as a data stick.

4.True or False: The first step to making a Silicon Chip is Slicing the crystals into wafers.

5.True or False: eBay has become notorious for "fake memory card" sales.

6.What is the price for a 8 GB memory card?

7.True or False: An 820 MB hard drive holds a nominal 820 million bytes

8. True or False: A motherboard allows all the parts of your computer to receive power and communicate with one another.

9. True or False: A flash drive is difficult to use.

10. True or False: The CompactFlash Type II form factor Microdrive is not at all popular in high resolution digital cameras.