After you have read this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Distinguish between primary and secondary storage.

2. Describe the traditional floppy disk and compare it to high-capacity floppy disks.

3. Compare internal hard disks, hard-disk cartridges, and hard-disk packs.

4. Describe ways to improve hard-disk operations, including disk caching, redundant arrays of inexpensive disks, and data compression and decompression.

5. Discuss the different types of optical discs.

6. Describe solid-state storage, Internet drives, and magnetic tape.

7. Discuss mass storage and mass storage devices.