FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL STORAGE DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of these are Optical Storage Devices?
A
Floppy Disk
B
CD-RW
C
Memory Card
D
DVD
E
CD-R
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Optical Storage Devices – Examples. The optical memory allows the read and write operation to take place by the use of a laser beam. The various optical media are CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray disks, etc.

Detailed explanation-2: -CD-R (Compact disc-recordable) is a digital optical disc storage format.

Detailed explanation-3: -Six categories of optical media are available to meet most storage requirements: CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, recordable media, write-once read-many (WORM) optical cartridges, and erasable optical cartridges.

Detailed explanation-4: -An optical disc is designed to support one of three recording types: read-only (e.g.: CD and CD-ROM), recordable (write-once, e.g. CD-R), or re-recordable (rewritable, e.g. CD-RW).

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