COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
COMPUTER MEMORY AND PROCESSING DEVICES
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floppy disk
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CPU
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mouse
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Detailed explanation-1: -Secondary memory (or storage) refers to nonvolatile storage devices that are usually mechanical in nature and therefore are much slower at transferring data to the CPU. The most common secondary storage devices for use with microcomputers are the floppy disk and hard disk.
Detailed explanation-2: -Secondary memory consists of all permanent or persistent storage devices, such as read-only memory (ROM), flash drives, hard disk drives (HDD), magnetic tapes and other types of internal/external storage media.
Detailed explanation-3: -Magnetic Disk Memory. Magnetic disk memory is used to implement hard disks, standard floppy disks, and high-density floppy disks (e.g., Zip drive, Super drive).
Detailed explanation-4: -Optical Storage An obsolete (no longer used) type of magnetic storage is a floppy disk but these have been replaced by solid state devices. Another type of magnetic storage that is still used is magnetic tape.