| Media storage devices are capable of preserving | | | | mouthful) or popularly known as CDR and CDRW |
| data, images, audio and video files of large sizes in | | | | media storage devices have a capacity to store |
| a comparatively small area. The evolution of the | | | | around 800 MB of data, audio, or video files. Since |
| media storage devices right from the 64 KB | | | | most of the personal computers are configured |
| floppy disk with its huge size (5 inches) to the | | | | to have a CD ROM Drive, it is very easy to |
| present day pen drives having a capacity 80GB | | | | transfer or read the files from any personal |
| has taken place within this decade. | | | | computer. The CDRW media can be reused again |
| Since many of the media storage devices which | | | | and again after deleting the files written earlier. |
| were very popular a few years ago have now | | | | The wonder of wonders among the media |
| become totally obsolete, we will start from the | | | | storage device is the Pen Drive. It is also known |
| hard disk and zip drive which set a trend in | | | | as a USB Drive. The pen drive can be connected |
| removable media storage device. | | | | very easily to the Universal Serial Bus Port (USB |
| Hard disk is a fixed media storage devices lacking | | | | port) of the personal computer and once |
| portability. When you buy a personal computer | | | | connected; it becomes another external drive of |
| you decide what should be the capacity of the | | | | the system. |
| hard disk which is fixed inside the personal | | | | The latest Pen Drive has the capacity to store |
| computer. The storage capacity of the hard disk | | | | around 80 GB of information. Some of the fancier |
| is gradually increasing as the days goes by earlier, | | | | Pen drives are available with a built in MP3 player |
| a decade ago, 2 GB hard disk was the largest | | | | and a voice recorder too. Conversations can be |
| storage capacity possible. Now there are hard | | | | recorded in WAV format and later on can be |
| disks available with a capacity to store 1 TB | | | | transcribed to text using the voice recognition |
| (Tetra Byte equivalent to 1024 GB). | | | | software. |
| Zip drive or disk is one the most popular portable | | | | Files can be written, deleted, transferred and |
| media storage device. Even though the highest | | | | rewritten in Pen Drives very easily. Among all the |
| capacity available is around 600 MB, its portability | | | | media storage devices, a Pen Drive is the most |
| made it very popular. It can be attached to any | | | | compact, easy to use and functionally versatile |
| personal computer without much of a hassle. | | | | device. |
| Writeable and rewriteable compact disks (what a | | | | |