Chapter 12. High-Capacity Removable Storage
The Role of Removable Media Drives
Since the mid-1980s, the primary storage device used by computers has been the hard disk drive. However, for data backup, data transport between computers, and temporary storage, secondary storage devices such as high-capacity removable media drives, floptical drives, magneto-optical drives, flash memory devices, and tape drives are useful supplements to primary storage. Pure optical storage—such as CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, and others—is covered in Chapter 13, “Optical Storage.” These types of drives can also be used as a supplement to hard disk storage as well as for primary storage.
The options for purchasing removable devices vary. Some removable-media ...
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