COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
INPUTOUTPUT DEVICES
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CD
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DVD
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Blu-ray
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Magnetic tape
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Detailed explanation-1: -A magnetic disk is a storage device that uses a magnetization process to write, rewrite and access data. It is covered with a magnetic coating and stores data in the form of tracks, spots and sectors. Hard disks, zip disks and floppy disks are common examples of magnetic disks.
Detailed explanation-2: -Common types of backing storage devices are hard drives, SSD, external hard disk drives, optical media such as CD or DVD, and flash media such as thumb drives and memory sticks. Older computer systems also used floppy disks and magnetic tapes as backing storage.
Detailed explanation-3: -Magnetic storage is the manipulation of magnetic fields on a medium in order to record audio, video or other data. Magnetic storage has been around in many forms since 1888 by Oberlan Smith, who publicized his audio recording on a wire in Electrical World.