This document discusses several types of data storage devices including floppy disks, zip disks, CDs, DVDs, tape drives, flash memory cards, and compact flash cards. It provides brief descriptions of each format, noting characteristics like storage capacity, usage, introduction date, and whether they are read-only, rewritable, or write-once formats. The document provides a high-level overview of common digital storage media for educational purposes.

1. Data Storage Devices
Benjamn Franklin
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Karla Rodríguez Reyes
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2. 3.5~inch Floppy Disk
 A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of
a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage
medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined
with fabric that removes dust particles. They are
read and written by a floppy disk drive (FDD).

3. Zip Disk
 The Zip drive is a medium-capacity removable disk
storage system That Was Introduced by Iomega in late
1994. Originally, Zip disks Launched with Capacities of
100 MB, But later versions Increased this to first 250 MB 750
MB and Then.

4. Mini CD
 The
Mini CD format CDs are reduced, also
known as compact disc pocket (Pocket-CD).

5. Tape Drive
 A tape drive is a data storage device reads and
performs That digital recording, writes data on a
magnetic tape. Magnetic tape data storage is
Typically Used for offline archival data storage.
Generally you have to cover half a favorable unit
cost and long archival Stability.

6. CD~R
A CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) is a
variation of the Compact Disc invented by
Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read
Many (WORM) optical medium, although the
whole disk does not have to be entirely written
in the same session.

7. CD~RW
 Isa rewritable optical disc. It was introduced in
1997, and was known as "CD-Writable" during
development. It was preceded by the CD-
MO, which was never commercially released.

8. DVD~RW
 Isa rewritable optical disc. It was introduced in
1997, and was known as "CD-Writable" during
development. It was preceded by the CD-MO,
which was never commercially released.

9. Mini DVD
 Isa DVD disc having 8 cm in diameter.
 The 8 cm optical disc format was originally
used for music CD singles, hence the
commonly used names CD single and mini
CD. Similarly, the manufactured 8 cm DVDs
were originally used for music videos and as
such became known as DVD single.

11. TransFlash o Micro SD
Is a non-volatile memory card format developed by the
SD Card Association (SDA) for use in portable devices.
The SD technology is used by more than 400 brands
across dozens of product categories and more than
8,000 models.

12. Compact Flash (CF)
 Wasoriginally a type of data storage device,
used in portable electronic devices.

13. Smart Media
 Isa flash memory card standard owned
by Toshiba, with capacities ranging from 2
MB to 128 MB. Smart Media memory cards
are no longer manufactured.