Can someone tell me the best secondary storage devices ever sold right now.?

Answer 1

External Hard Drives i guess
depends on if u want space or speed

for space i suggest a maxtor or a Lacie

they have huge disk space
and for speed definatly firewire, most of the bigger drives have firewire

Answer 2

Best is a matter of opinion. Each type of secondary storage has it's good points and it's bad points. Their are currently two economical and viable options.

Optical which is a long term storage and if you are looking for personal usage you can fit a lot of data on a CD, DVD or dual layer DVD. But they are susceptible to damage and contrary to popular belief they do decay slowly over time and eventually will become unreadable. On the plus side you can randomly access the data, don't need to fear magnetic fields, they are relatively small and light weight.

Magnetic which is usually tape or disk. These are definitely vulnerable to magnetic fields are more fragile than their optical counterparts, Tape is sequential which will affect performance retrieving files. On the plus side they are relatively cheap can be overwritten many more times than their optical counterparts.

Answer 3

holographic storage disk, they only started to appear on the market, it's the fastest storage 120megs per second, I think they have like 300gigs right now, but soon there will be 1.6TB disks