All right welcome back everybody
to another episode of ITPRO.TV. I'm your host Don Pazet and we are here today to jump right
back to CompTIA IT Fundamentals. In this episode specifically we're gonna
be taking a look at storage hardware which for me is the one that I'm
always running out of. I can never have enough of it so we're gonna take a look at
the different types of storage and so many other things that are going on and
here to help us is Mr Ronnie Wong. Ronnie, thanks for joining us. Well, Don thank you for having me on
the show as we continue to take a look at the idea of computer hardwarde. Specially the size of your storage and
I think you make a telling statement. The very fact is,
when we start talking about storage, we're always running out of storage today,
even more than over. At one point, Don, I don't know about you, but I remember my very first hard
drive that I ever bought on my own. Not the one that my parents bought, but the one that I bought on my own,
It was a 20MB hard drive. And I was king of the world because
that was like six times bigger than anything else that was
ever out there before that. But, yes,
the idea of capacity at that point, it was actually the biggest
one that I had in college. And it was actually the biggest one
on my little tiny college campus that I was there on, until somebody
else bought a 40 megabyte one. But overall though I think capacity is
the key when we start talking about idea of storage. But there's also different types of
storage that we want to get into. As well as talking about some of
the ones we tend to encounter on a daily basis that we might not
think are also storage devices too. Which we'll of course make sure
that you actually see that and show you how some of that actually
converts into the idea of capacity for us and what it does for
us in terms of our computer's sake. All right, well Ronnie you make some
really good points there like when I hear the word storage,
I immediately think hard drives. Right, and I am constantly running out
of hard drive space on my systems. So that's kind of what pops into my mind. But really hard drives
are just a type of memory and there's more than one type
of memory in a computer. So let's start off right there, with what
are some of the different kinds of memory, and which type are we gonna
talk about in this episode? Yeah,
that's a great point to make, Don. The idea here behind memory is, when our
computers need to be able to do something, it doesn't just take it directly
from the hard drive and use it. It has to be able to use it much quicker
than what the hard drive can provide so we tend to also have to put it
in some type of memory that the processor will be able to
access very quickly as well. So there is another type of memory for us
that's really a lot faster than the idea of what we call our traditional
hard drives here, okay? When we start talking about that
you hear it in very general broad categorical terms too. So one terms is what we
call volatile memory, okay? Volatile memory means that it will
keep whatever data that we store on that chip, and that's what it intends
to run on is computer chips here, it will keep that pattern of
whatever data that we send to it as long as there is electricity
available to keep it there. Now, once we turn the machine off,
that pattern dissipates, it goes away. And then if the machine reboots,
it's completely gone at that point. So as long as there's electricity present, then it will keep whatever
we have in there. Now, that works because there's a lot of
times where we don't need everything to be there permanently. We just need to be able to use
that space as a workspace so that our computers can do
whatever it needs to do. And then from that point if it needs
information, well, it can get rid of some of the information and then bring
new information into that workspace. But then there's also what we call,
non-volatile memory, as well. And in non-volatile memory, that really means that if the computer
itself loses its electricity, the information that we originally had
stored on it is not going to go away. It's going to stay there
regardless of whether or not there is electricity present. So when you hear about them in
the context of the computer, there's really two types of those
memories that we're talking about. So the first one, volatile,
is represented by what we call RAM. And RAM, here's a stick of
RAM that I have available. As long as this piece of RAM here
connected to the motherboard has electricity going on it, well, those chips that are on this
little circuit board that we have. Well, they'll keep the information
on there and available for access and whatever else you need to it. But once the information goes, or
once the electricity goes away, then the information will kinda
dissipate off of that as well. Now there's also other chips on the
motherboard too that we can talk about as well which don't require information,
or not information, don't require electricity,
it has to require information. So we have things that the computer needs
for the computer to be able to boot-up and recognize all the devices. When you hear about that, you might
hear about the idea of what we call, read-only memory, and
that's just information that was programmed in from the factory that's
gonna be there regardless of whether or not I have electricity
given to it as well. Now, from that point we tend to be
able to use that one computer is doing what it needs to but
if we're sending data, that is when we probably go to more
non-volatile in this sense as well. Now it needs electricity to write
information to a device like this but it doesn't need electricity
to store the information. It will actually store the information
on a physical location. There's actually platters here which will
allow it to write information to it. And it'll store it and
if I turn the computer off and turn it back on, the information is
still accessible on this device as well. So those are really
the two broad categories. A memory types that we tend to
find in our computer systems. So the kind of reinforce that
Ronnie you're holding a storage right? So the RAM that you were holding up
since it's not plugged into a computer, it does not have electricity,
so it's virtually empty. There's no data on that. If I would just take that
in my computer it's empty. That's how it's going to be. But the hard drive you held up,
that's been pulled out of a computer. It has no power, but
the data on it's still safe. Right. Right? And it's probably worth mentioning
that it's not 100% safe. There are things that could damage
the data that are on there. So we don't want to necessarily do it
like we're doing here on this show and handle equipment more than we need to. But the reasoning here is that
data's stored a good bit different on our non-volatile storage. I always remember when I
got started in computing, they would always tell you keep
magnets away from computers, right? Don't get magnets anywhere
near your computer. Magnets wouldn't do physical damage, but they could actually damage the data
that was stored on your drives. So kind of an interesting way of where
memory is kind of short-term memory and long-term memory in a human. That there's things that we just need
to remember for a little while and there's things that we need
to remember for a long time. So we have different types of storage. Now, whenever we talk about storage,
whether its RAM or whether it's a physical hard drive like you held up, One of the
big concerns is how much we have right? Right
And when I go to buy a computer, they always advertise it really clearly. It comes with this much RAM,and
this big of a hard drive or this much other storage. Sometimes, they don't denote it very
well and they just say it has memory and a certain amount and that doesn't necessarily let you
know is that RAM or storage. But, let's talk a little bit
about how that size is measured. What are some of the units of
measurement that we encounter? When it comes down to actually
buying storage, or needing storage for your computers and you're starting
to look at purchasing this, well, you're gonna look for two different types. You're gonna look for RAM, or
you're gonna also look for a hard drive or some type of storage capacity too. And that measurement is done in terms
of what we call bytes of information. And, today, there are multiples
of those bytes as well. So, let's take a look at my screen and this should help us to kind of make sure
that we understand, at least I hope. Let me see if I can center some of this
stuff out as we start to talk about. When it comes down to capacity, remember that when we start talking
about the information itself. Computers don't know about alphabets and
different things. What it knows about are ones and zeros in terms of what
the computer can process and do. So when we start doing that, we're working
with information that's either gonna be a one or
a zero in a pattern of one or zeros. Well that begins with a single bit,
and that means a one or a zero is actually what is
represented at this point. Now when we start to work in
this idea of storage as well, 8 bits together combine and it forms what
we call the idea of a byte of information. Now byte of information is 8 bits which
is fine, that's another category and that's larger of course than just a bit. But then we go into the KiloBytes
of information, and this is equal to 1,000 Bytes,
okay, of information. Now, the hard drive that I was talking
about right at the beginning of the show, the 20 MegaByte hard drive. Well that was essentially well, 20,
okay, of these KiloBytes here, right? Or yeah, 20,000 of these KiloBytes, as what it was actually coming out to be,
right? So a megabyte is equitable
to 1,000 of these kilobytes, or equal to a million bytes,
as we start to take a look, okay? So you notice that they're multiples,
as they continue to jump up here. But Don, when was the last time you bought
a hard drive that was in megabyte size? It's been a long time. And I think I was in college when, cuz I'm
a little bit younger than you are, Ronnie. And I bought a 950 megabyte
drive that was, like your story, was way bigger than anybody
else's at the time. Now we kind of laugh about that
cuz it's not even one gigabyte. So today it's almost entirely gigabytes. Yeah, it's amazing because when I first
bought that hard drive, it was so big. That 20 megabyte hard drive, it felt like it was a little bit smaller
than the shoe box at that point, but that was its capacity that it
could actually end up holding. So 20 megabytes here is
relatively small today but in that day it was actually large. Today we tend to see of course,
the idea of gigabytes and terabytes. Now remember that when we
start moving up here, right? Well, a gigabyte is about 1000 megabytes. So notice it's actually
multiplied that again. Or if you wanna go back to the term
bytes here, about 1 billion bytes and a terabyte as 1, 000 gigabytes or
if you wanna come down to that. Look at that that's I don't even know
what number that is, beyond billion, that is trillion, so
that is 1 trillion bytes. And then even sizes that
are bigger than what we'll have in a regular desktop computer, at least I
think, at this point, which is a petabyte, which is equal to about
a thousand terabytes. So when we're recording the show today,
the ideas about 500 megabyte hard drives are probably
fairly standard on a lot of devices, or 256, not megabytes,
gigabytes, excuse me, gigabytes. And 500 gigabytes is fairly standard,
and terabytes, of course, are becoming even more standard as well,
okay? When we start seeing it, but
now you're starting to see of course, not only is this actually the truth when
we're heading into the terabyte world. What Don was mentioning is that when
you start buying them, you'll see, for example, on the actual drive itself,
there's going to be a label on here that will tell
you what size this drive is, okay? So on the label you'll see, and on the
box, if you happen to buy a physical one, it will also tell you. But this one says 3,000 gigabytes. Now, they could have actually just
abbreviated that as being 3 terabytes if they wanted to, but this one actually
does say 3,000 gigabytes here. That shows you the capacity that
we can store on here, which is so much more than what we can believe here,
because that's three trillion bytes of information,
which is a lot of information. Now Don on though,
this one is a physical hard drive, and that's something else we
want to talk about as well. A very fact is that, that means
that there's a platter inside and you can kinda see the outline of
that kinda roundness here too. But it means that the data is actually
stored on physical locations on that drive as well, okay? And that's what we want to
make sure that we understand. And with a physical disk like
that it's older technology, right? Because these have been
around since the late 1980s. Obviously it's,
if you compare today's spinning hard disk to one from the 1980s it
is a world of difference. Right. But it is still the same basic idea. It's a physical platter that's
spinning inside of it, and it's got certain limitations. So for example Ronnie pointed out that
that one has 3,000 gigabytes of storage. But I can guarantee you, if I put that
in my computer, and I format it, and I set it up, I'll end up with a partition
size that's probably more like, not three terabytes but more like two
point seven terabytes or something. You lose some of the storage. Because of the way that the binary
ones and zeros have to get stored on this physical platter you
actually lose some of that overhead. And that's kind of the nature of
the beast with that type of storage. Now that's old technology, which implies
that there must be something new, right Ronnie, something that gets in and kinda
solves the problems of physical disks. Yeah, when it comes down to it,
the physical disk also not only because of the losing of the storage sometimes,
but because also it's physical it means that it has to kind of
rotate that disc to find the information. Which also means it's gonna be slower. So by comparison, even though I might have
a disk like this, that will still work, it will still function
the way that we want to. But we can only spin that disk so
fast to access the information too. Well now, we can change that and we can
actually come up with something, well, much smaller. So I know it's hard to see with
my black shirt on and everything. [LAUGH]
But you can now see it in comparison here, the
thickness of this device versus this one, and that is because with this one
which is a newer technology, okay? This one there's no moving parts, Don. And without moving parts,
it means it can act as all electronically which is going to be much
faster than what we had before. This one does not have as
much capacity but it's close. Don what size do you think
that this particular drive is? It's got to be, it's got to be cheap
enough for us to use on the show. So I'm gonna guess that
it's about a 256gb? Well you would think so, but
if I turn this thing over, right? It actually is a terabyte. [CROSSTALK]
It's a terabyte solid state, that's what they call this,
called solid state drive here. And so this one is a terabyte, and you can
kind of almost see the little TB there. But overall though, so the capacity, even though the size is
smaller physically here, capacity we can get these much bigger,
but it becomes much more expensive too. And what you're holding,
it's a little misleading too, because when Ronnie holds up that
physical spinning disk, all right? The size of that disk has to be that size,
cuz there are platters inside of it that fill up that space,
that's why the disk is that size. The one that's in his left hand though,
it's actually in a case, and the case is somewhat fake. If we were to crack that open, which it's
expensive so we're not gonna do that. Right, [LAUGH]. But if we were to crack that open, the actual memory inside of it fills
up less than half of that case. And the reason they put
a bigger case on there is, so it's the same size as laptops that
are hard drives, the older technology. They didn't wanna have to, didn't want to
re-update all the form factor of laptops and other things to take account for
this new storage. Now, we're not seeing that
on the newest equipment. [LAUGH]
If you're buying laptops today, they might not even take into account
the size of old laptop hard drives and they shift to newer stuff. Do you have an example of that Ronnie? We do, so just like what
Don was talking about, right? So here's what I have available
to me in this size as well. The traditional format. The traditional form factor. But Don, this one right here
is also a hard drive as well. And this is confusing for most people
because it looks fairly similar to what I held up a little bit earlier,
which was a volatile memory, which is RAM. So this has got chips on it too, and
this one of course has chips But this one is actually
going to be a smaller but also faster, and directly connected
into the mother board too. So this one actually have
a little card that does it. But over all though,
this one has a capacity I believe of 250, yeah, 250 gigabytes on this one, and
it is a faster drive for us as well. So not only are we starting to
see the form factor change and no longer follow those rules
like what Don was talking about. But we're now starting to see that
we can start putting more and more information on it,
even in smaller sizes as well. And so you're starting to see more of
this because it's very light weight. And not only that though,
it fits in well just about everything. So not only with this fit into a regular
desktop computer, which this one was actually put into, but it can also fit
into something such as my laptop as well. And then I have the same capacity but
not needing the additional space to make a gigantic laptop work and have
the same capacities that out there too. So this is what you're starting
to see more and more, and there's a couple of different
varieties of these. But overall though, okay, you're starting to see more of
this type of storage as as well. So all these are actually coming into
the idea of the capacities that we need to work, and you're starting to
see more of that because, well, the form factors are changing as well. Now I'll tell you, you may hear
me complain from time to time that computing technology hasn't changed
all that much in the last ten years, that we haven't seen groundbreaking
advancements in CPUs. We haven't seen amazing
networking technologies come out. Things have been slow increments, right. Processors have gotten
incrementally faster, networks have gotten incrementally faster. But storage is a big area of improvement. When we go from a traditional
spinning disk to flash based memory, like the SSD that Ronnie was holding up. They are so much faster, light years
faster then what we had on spinning disk. That's one big improvement, but I'll tell
you the biggest improvement in my opinion. Anytime you have a moving part,
it can wear out. Right. Right, fans wear out, hard drives wear out. They have an arm in them
that's moving back and forth thousands of times a second
sometimes, they wear out. A lot of us have experienced hard drive
failures at some point or another. In fact, it's a rare hard drive
that lasts beyond three years. That's usually the window they're
willing to warranty them. Any time you get beyond three
years is like a bonus time, right. But flash memory,
like the SSD that Ronnie held up, those are super fast with no moving parts. That means they're far less
likely to have a failure, and they last significantly longer. Now when the initial ones came out, they
did have a limit to the amount of times you could read and
write to them before they wore out. That technology's been advanced, and
we don't really have those limits anymore. And so now this storage is so
much better that if I take, let's say you have a computer that's
got a 3.4 gigahertz processor, and I give you a computer with
a 3.6 gigahertz processor. You probably won't notice the difference. If you had four cores
in your processor and I give you one with eight cores,
you probably won't notice the difference. But if you have a computer with
a spinning disk and you move to SSD, you will notice big time. It is a huge advancement. So it's one of the most exciting
advancements we've seen in computers these days. And there's no doubt,
Don, that what you say, I've experienced the same thing too. And I don't think you experience the speed
in the same way, which is weird. Just like what Don was saying
that when you experience that, sometimes you don't even realize how
fast it is by comparison until you move back to a system that is
running a conventional drive. And all of a sudden you're like, something
has gotta be wrong with this system. And it's not,
it's just that you have adapted so quickly to the fact your computer is
actually working that much faster, but you forgot what it felt to be on
a system that had a conventional drive. And that has caught me more than once when
somebody finally said, you have to give it a moment to catch up to what you
are doing, and I just didn't realize it. And so that's one of those things where
you just really don't realize what is happening when those things
go start to do that. Now Don, those aren't the only ones, but those are kinda the more advanced
things that we're talking about. But there are other things that we can do,
of course, that if we have systems
like my laptop though, Don. Which on my laptop, it doesn't
really give me the ability to go, all right Don, I want to go ahead and
put that this right into my new laptop. Because most of these laptops say,
they're kinda saying, look, you don't upgrade, you just get a new
laptop that has more capacity in them. And if they're not upgradeable, well how can you still expand
the storage ability that you need? Well that's when we can get
into some different types of external storage that we can
talk about briefly as well. So for example, most of us have
probably seen something like this, which is another type of flash memory
just like we're talking about here. But this one will generally
connect to a USB port, which is kind of the universal
type of connector that we'll have. And they'll be much smaller in their
capacity size that we tend to have. So this one, for example, is 16 gigs versus the flash memory that
I was showing you had 250 gigs, okay. So you'll see stuff like this just
about everywhere that's out there. And most of us buy these because
they're fast, they're easy, they allow us to store a lot
of information very quickly. But I have to break open my lap
top to add additional storage. Now I simply plug it in when I need to,
and then of course ass I'm done with it I make sure I safely eject it
from the computer, and then I pull it out. If not, some of those things that Don was
talking about that with the physical drive you can damage information. Well the same thing with these. If you tend to unplug it in the middle
of a cycle when it's trying to read something or write something, or
usually write something to the drive, when you actually unplug it without
letting the operating system know. So we wanna make sure that we're
careful with these things. But they are really handy, and they really
gives us that ideal plugging in and adding additional capacity
right away in terms of memory. Now a USB key like you're holding up
there is pretty universal at this point. Right. A lot of people use those, a great way to share
data in between systems. They are pretty fast and
most systems support them. But it's not always
supported by everybody, there's not always a best
way of hitting things off. And when we say they're fast, it's fast in comparison to some
of the previous types of storage. So Ronnie, can you show us some of
the other types of external storage that people might encounter? Sure, so let's go backward
in time a little bit more and this way we'll kind of do that as well. So let me go ahead and
bring up probably a little bit older, a little bit slower here at times,
but well things like this, right. Optical storage is another one. Now optical storages came along at
this kind of unusual time as well when hard drive space or capacities were
at a premium and they were very expensive. But we needed more than just the ability
to add in a couple of floppy disks, okay. So these, of course,
also you can end up with an optical drive. And they will hold a certain capacity and this one is actually, if I can hold
up here on my left hand here, okay. This one will hold about 700 megabytes. Now that doesn't sound like a lot, but
in that day when it was actually at its height, that's a lot of information
that you could store on a single disk. And then of course DVDs came along, and this one is about 4.7 gigabytes here,
okay. So both of these essentially in
their examples, even though they're kind of exactly identical in terms of
the size, one has a greater capacity, which is this one right here,
then this one that's available but it requires then another type of drive
that we can also access as well. So this is out there and
it's still available. And the unusual thing is you don't
realize how much you need one of these until you actually go into
a place which only has these things. Cuz it was strange, Don, there was
one time where I went some place and I said, I don't know how I'd connect to
your system because you're not allowing me to use USB anymore. They're like, well don't you have optical? I was like, no,
I haven't used optical in three years. I didn't even think about it anymore. But yeah, the technology tends to pass
off, you know, at least for me, so quickly. But yeah, these are another great
way to store information, but they are a bit more fragile,
because you can scratch the back of these surfaces very easily and not be able
to access the data on them anymore. Yeah, the big advantage with them
is simply that you write once and then it stays in a non-modifiable form,
so you can show that, you know, files haven't been tampered with. But, like you said, very few laptops
have that kind of storage, and there are a lot of other types of external
storage too, that you may or may not even have sockets for in your laptop, you
may not even have them in your desktop. You might have to have an external
reader so, one that pops into mind for me are like memory cards,
do you have an examples of memory cards? Yeah, I have one example of an older
memory card that we tend to find in certain devices. So for example, this. This is what we call a compact flash. Now, if you're saying it looks almost,
the earliest digital cameras, Don, I think had these types
of storage devices too. This one's fairly small. It only holds 64 Megabytes,
so it's strange, since my 20 megabyte hard drive
was 9,000 times larger than this. This thing held three times the size
of that device I was talking about. Your 20 megabyte hard drive was
9,000 times the size of a 64 megabyte- It felt like it. [LAUGH]
[LAUGH] It felt that heavy, this is just yeah, right. Well [CROSSTALK] aside, we can
[CROSSTALK] these are actually still useful today though in like
industrial equipment right? Yeah, so where we tend to
find something like this is for things like routers, okay,
is where we tend to find them. Where they only have to store
a small amount of information and the operating system that makes
those devices end up working. They're fairly industrious,
like what Don was saying. In other words,
you can kinda move them around and not really have to worry about them
too much, but at the same time, you'll probably find them
in those applications. You don't tend to find them in 40
gigabyte size or anything like that. But the very fact of nature is that you
will still see some of this in equipment that's usually in a networking closet
somewhere, if you're running routers and stuff like that. So, just kinda be aware
that you'll end up seeing, well, probably any of these
that we've actually showed you. All right, now Ronnie we've
kinda been dropping hints here that we don't have CD drives in our computers. Even USB ports like
the USB key you held up. Right. I can't plug that into my laptop. I don't have the right port for it. So we have all this external storage
I can't hook up to my computer. What are people using instead of
external storage like that today? Well, what ends up happening, of
course, is that once we get past that and we still need additional storage and we're
not able to hook into something like that, you're gonna hear the idea of
pushing towards cloud storage or network-connected storage. And cloud storage is where you end up
going out to the internet and you find a service provider that says, hey,
we provide storage for you in the cloud. And you pay a subscription for this and
then, they give you access to so much of their storage. Now, the neat thing about it though,
is that when you gain access to it, well, all you have to do is actually
have one of two ways to do that. You can download an application that will
allow you to make it look like you're directly connected to that storage, so that one looks like another
device on your computer. Let me show you what
I'm talking about here. And I will go ahead and
bring this up, and we'll show you. For example, right here, I have a little
icon that says Dropbox, it says ITProTV. And all this stuff that we see right
inside of here, in this Show Notes folder, well, this is stuff that I've been
working on in the past six months or so, okay, which is fine, but
this is not really just on my hard drive. This is stored up inside that Internet
service provider's infrastructure, and if I go to that service
provider's infrastructure. Let me minimize that. Then I can kind of show you
like up here in the cloud. So you log in. And now, on their website, I can go in and
I can go into the, here it is, here's our account TIT fundamentals. And now, Don can also access,
and you can see right here, where certain files were created by Don. Here's one that's created by Nate, and there's a couple of them
way down here at the bottom. I think that was created by me, and my name is not appearing in them because,
oops, I kinda backed out of that somehow. But you kinda get the idea. Let me see if I can find that again. But this gives us this ability to
not have to worry about the size of the storage that I have. I can have it all up inside of
the cloud service provider, and be able to gain access to it
as well back on my machine, without having to jump
through a lot of hoops. And the additional thing that is nice
about this.is unlike those drives where things can fail,
like what Don mentioned, these things have the ability
to have what we call versioning. Which allows us to say,
if I accidentally delete it, I can probably bring that back as well,
and if I overwrite something I can say, I shouldn't have overwritten that, I can
go back and find that last version I had. And it also keeps track of that too. Yeah, one of the things I really
like here is that if I lose my USB key, cuz they're small, it's easy to lose them,
I lose the data that's on them. But if I lose my entire laptop,
and I'm using cloud storage, I still have access to my data. It's in the cloud. I could have a hard drive failure,
my house could burn down, and all of my data is safely
stored in the cloud. I don't really even have to worry
about backups so much anymore. As long as I'm syncing my
data up into the cloud, I know it's already stored
somewhere else and my data is safe, as long as we have those previous versions
that are being maintained as well. So, that type of technology is
really the way of the future. Right now, Ronnie, you're showing Dropbox. There's Microsoft OneDrive, Apple's
iCloud Drive, there's Google Drive. There's tons of companies that are out
there that are releasing cloud-based storage like this, and not just for
individuals, but for entire companies, entire organizations to run
entirely with cloud storage. So definitely, definitely the way
the future, wouldn't you think? Yeah, there is no doubt,
because of exactly what you said. The very fact is that I don't even
have to have that in my computer. If now end up over Don's house and I'm
like I need to get access to that file, I'll just ask him if I can
get access to Dropbox, and then I can go on and find all the files
that I've been syncing up there. And I can get access to them from there. So I don't even have to have
that computer available to me, where we can actually do this stuff. So it's very much the wave of the future,
and more than likely, inside of most businesses,
you're gonna see a use like this. Because it's easier for them to keep
track of everything in one location, instead of actually going, well,
hopefully Ronnie backed all that stuff up. I don't really know, because I've realized
he doesn't really like backing up stuff. But if I make them sync to it, it's all
gonna be there which is very nice, too. All right, well Ronnie,
I think that's a pretty good rundown of the different types of storage that are
out there, the way storage is measured. And hopefully everybody out there
in TV land has a better idea of how your computer is actually saving
the data that you need to use. And is aware that there's a ton
of different options out there. So before we wrap up, do you have
any final comments for our viewers? Well, just remember, storage. You're probably going to see the one-key
aspect of what we want to make sure of, of course, is that you understand
there's different types. But remember,
people always want more storage. So the more that you can afford
to actually have, you're probably actually going to help out whoever
you're gonna be supporting in that. But overall though, just make sure that
you can understand the different types and that will help you,
not only on the exam, but you'll also of course see them
as you work in this industry. All right, well ladies and gentlemen,
that's gonna wrap up another episode for us here with CompTIA IT Fundamentals. Be sure to stay tuned, though, because we
have more IT Fundamentals coming at you. And if you haven't checked it out,
be sure to check out the ITProTV library. We have a lot of great IT learning
in there available for you. You'll enjoy it, and you can spend
a lot of time hunting through content [LAUGH]
Yes. Finding, finding great stuff. But definitely stay tuned. We have more IT Fundamentals
coming down the line. Signing off for ITProTV, I'm Don Pezet. And I'm Ronnie Wong. And we'll see you next time. [MUSIC] Thank you for watching ITPRO.TV.
