Storage Devices

External Hard Drive

An external hard disk drive is a type of hard disk drive which is connected to a computer by a USB cable. These come in many different sizes depending on how much you are looking to back up on them. In digital graphics you can use an external hard drive to store all your images on that you our editing or have already editied.

Flashcards

A flash card is a small data storage device that uses a flash memory chip to store data. Flash cards can be quite small in size but can have a high capacity of gigabytes of storage. There are many different devices that use these cards such as mobile phones, cameras and video game devices. It is good to have a flash card in your mobile phone or camera if you are going to be taking a lot of images. This means you can just put the flash card in to your computer and upload your pictures so you can start to edit them. Flash cards can also holds music, videos, animations etc as well as images.

USB

A USB pen is alot smaller than the external hard drive but does not hold as much data on them. A USB usually goes from 1GB to 16GB were an external hard drive starts at 64GB. In digital graphics you could use your USB for holding a certain amout of images that you are using to edit at that time.

 CD Rom

You can also store images on a CD but this wouldn't hold an awful lot of imformation as it is one of the older ways of storing information. You can store the maximum of about 350 images on a cd in comparison with a usb pen or an external hard drive were you can save thousands. A CD rom would be ok for saving your editied pictures on if you were going to present them to someone, you then just have the correct images for your presentation.