CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 63: Hard Disk Drive, Usb Flash Drive, Arithmetic Logic Unit

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Processes instructions, performs calculations, manages flow of information through the computer system, and is responsible for processing the data you input into information. Random access memory is your computer"s temporary storage space short-term memory. Hard disks provide the greatest non-volatile storage capacity remember data when computer is off. Means to store data and software applications permanently: hard disk drive, usb flash drive, cd and dvd drives. Non-volatile storage devices, the hard disk drive (or just hard drive) is used the most. Storage capacity of 2 tb and above, hard drives have the largest storage capacity of any storage device.