COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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RAM
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External hard drive
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. solid state storage devices, such as solid state drives (SSDs) and USB memory sticks.
Detailed explanation-2: -Typical secondary storage devices include magnetic tape drives, magnetic disk drives, compact optical disk drives, and archival storage devices such as disk jukeboxes. Figure 1.6. Memory hierarchy.
Detailed explanation-3: -An external storage device, also referred to as auxiliary storage and secondary storage, is a device that contains all the addressable data storage that is not inside a computer’s main storage or memory.
Detailed explanation-4: -Primary memory usually refers to Random Access Memory (RAM), while secondary storage refers to devices such as hard disk drives, solid state drives, removable “USB” drives, CDs, and DVDs.