1. CHAPTER 3: DATA STORAGE, BACKING UP DATA AND TYPES OF ACCESS

2. W.A.L.T Know the two types of data storage W.I.L.F Know the difference between serial and direct access. Be Able To give examples for each type of data storage.

3. W.A.L.T Know why it is important to backup data W.I.L.F Understand the different ways in which data can be stored. Be Able To summarise the above as part of a poster.

4. Starter Activity Input / Output devices sorting Task. Open and complete the task in the shared area.

5. Keywords The following words will crop up as part of the following presentation. You should use your notes sheet to log information about them when it is covered. You will be quizzed on these words later. Backing Storage Data Written Medium Backup Hackers Corruption Serial Access Direct Access

6. What is Data Storage? Definition: “Data Storage is where we put data in a ‘known’ place (Save) which we can come back to later and get the data back again (Read)”. Writing / Saving Data = Storing Data. Reading / Opening Data = Getting our data back again from the storage location.

7. Difference between Backing Storage and RAM

8. What is backing up of Data?

10. Why backup Data?

12. Ways in which Data is Stored and Read

17. Task 1 Overview You are going to create a multi-paged A3 landscape poster (in Microsoft Publisher) documenting information about storage devices. This instruction sheet will be split up into 2 tasks with task 1 starting today. Read each task carefully and design your poster to the criteria provided for you.

18. Task 1 Create page 1 of your poster. Page 1 should: 1.Include the title “Storage Devices and Media”. Sub-Titles can be added as needed. 2.Summarise the information found on the “Backing up Data and Types of Access” lesson PowerPoint. Pay attention to include information on: Reasons why we should back up our data Serial Data Access Direct Data Access Make use of images and colour to make the poster attractive. Images can be found by yourself but the picture examples of how serial and direct access devices work provided on the lesson PowerPoint will be especially useful.