COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Which of the following shows the correct order of storage size, starting with the smallest?

A	Floppy disk, CD-ROM, DVD
B	CD-ROM, DVD, floppy disk
C	DVD, CD-ROM, floppy disk
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Correct answer is (D) Floppy Disk, Zip Disk, CD-ROM. Floppy Disks store few MB of data. Zip disks store a few hundred MB of data, usually ranging from100MB to750MB. An8-cm CD-ROM media can store about200 MB of data while a12-cm CD-ROM media can store up to about847 MB of data.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first 8-inch floppy disk had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. By 1986, IBM introduced the 3-1/2 inch floppy disk with 1.44 megabytes of storage space. This may seem like very little now, but at the time it was hard to imagine needing more space than that.

Detailed explanation-3: -The correct answer is KB, MB, GB, TB. Storage Capacity of a Computer refers to how much data a computer system can store.

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