This document is a chapter from a McGraw-Hill textbook about different types of storage devices. It describes how magnetic storage devices like hard drives and floppy disks store data using positive and negative charges on a magnetic surface. Optical storage devices like CDs and DVDs use lasers to read binary data represented by lands and pits. Solid-state devices store data using physical switches without moving parts, examples given are flash memory, smart cards, and solid-state disks.