Question

[computer science question]

Describe the Data Life Cycle or Circle as discussed in class. Give examples of hardware for long-term storage and long-term storage “data containers”. Give Examples of hardware for short-term storage and short-term storage “data containers”. Please describe the relationship between long-term and short-term data.

Answer 1

The data life cycle provides several stages that are basically involved in storing the data used for future use. The entire data life cycle model is divided into stages where data are bring collected, preserved, integrated and analyzed. Data life cycle mostly based on these below 6 stages:

• Capturing the data
• Maintaining the captured data
• Utilization of the data
• Publication of the data
• Archiving the collected data
• Deletion of the old data.

Example of long term storage: hard drives

Long term storage data containers: SSD

Example of short term storage: RAM

Short term storage data containers: RAM

Now coming to the relationship between short term and long term storage is in case of short term storage, the data can be utilised for a short period of time and those data are temporary data. But for long term data storage, data is collected and stored for years.