FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL STORAGE DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What type of storage is a DVD?
A
USB Flash Drive
B
Solid State
C
Optical Disc
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Optical storage is any storage type in which data is written and read with a laser. Typically, data is written to optical media such as compact discs (CDs) and digital versatile discs (DVDs).

Detailed explanation-2: -An optical disk is an electronic data storage medium that can be written to and read from using a low-powered laser beam.

Detailed explanation-3: -Optical Storage Devices CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs are used for a lot more than playing music and videos – they also act as storage devices. Collectively they’re known as optical storage devices or optical media.

Detailed explanation-4: -Secondary storage devices are generally separated into three types: magnetic storage devices, such as hard disk drives and tapes. optical storage devices, such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

Detailed explanation-5: -What Does DVD-RAM Mean? DVD-RAM is a portable, removable and rewritable optical disc format. Unlike the standard DVD medium, DVD-RAM can be written, erased and/or overwritten (with a maximum overwrite capacity of 100, 000).

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