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Physical Storage Media Such As Usb Drives And External Hdds

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physical storage media such as USB drives and external HDDs. If students backup work to personal backup systems regularly their should be no issues with consistency but if students neglect to backup work every time it is changed then them being in charge of their own backup would ne unpractical because in the event of data loss they could not backup to the most recent version of the file.

There also arises an issue of students bringing their own storage media which as well as external storage devices includes the student’s device itself. It is possible that the student’s devices have become corrupted with various issues such as, worms, virus, adware and spyware. Depending on the conditions, the network connection may create an environment for the malware to spread to other devices and cause multiple infections. However an advantage of this would be the school would not need to spend money on backup hardware.

File types would become an issue when students are using a range of freeware on their devices. Rather than pay $1000 dollars for Adobe Photoshop as explained earlier freeware is available that can perform the same tasks to the same or a less technical level. These often have their own file types to save in but many of them for example Kingston office allows users to save in the same file type or a compatible file type for its paid counterpart, however some freeware may not offer this feature which means all work will need to be completed on the students device in

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