Zip drives are a backup storage device manufactured by IOmega. With the development of high density writable CD's and DVD's, zip drives have become far less popular.
San's or Storage Area Networks are the devices used when making optical drives, or storage drives, such as usb flash drives. You can purchase these from companies like New Egg.
Examples of storage devices are: internal/external hard drives, floppy drives, CD's, DVD's, thumb drives, etc.
There are many types of storage media, two of them are USBs, or thumb drives, and external hard drives.
They both... used as storage
A SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) connector is primarily used to connect storage devices, such as hard drives and solid-state drives, to a computer's motherboard. It facilitates data transfer between the storage device and the computer, allowing for faster read and write speeds compared to older interfaces like PATA. SATA connectors also provide power to the drives, ensuring they operate correctly within the system. Overall, they are essential for modern storage solutions in computers.
The best brand of storage drives are either FreeAgent or Seagate. Whatever you do, do not get Western Digital. They always die on me whenever I use their drives.
Primary storage, called RAM memory, is temporaty one that holds data and instructions while it is processing both. And slower but more permanent is secondary storage. And those are hard drives, CD drives, DVD drives, flash drives, Zip drives and floppy drives.
You cannot master / slave a sata drive. These drives are single channel only.On the motherboard, you will see X amount of connectors. Therefore (2) connectors, is an extra 2 sata drives. Both being masters.
Storage devices are different mediums that can hold varying amounts of information. Some examples of storage devices include CD, DVD, flash drives, floppy disks, and tape drives.
Hard disk drive inside the PC, CD or DVD drives/disks, USB (thumb drive, jump drive), and floppy disk drive/disk storage. Other storage can be external Hard disk drives, tape drives, RAID drives and the newer Blu-Ray.
Some examples are hard drives, CD drives, DVD drives, flash drives, zip drives, and floppy drives