COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES
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Question
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magnetic
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optical
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induction
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solid state
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Detailed explanation-1: -A storage medium may be internal to a computing device, such as a computer’s SSD, or a removable device such as an external HDD or universal serial bus (USB) flash drive. There are also other types of storage media, including magnetic tape, compact discs (CDs) and non-volatile memory (NVM) cards.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are three main categories of storage devices: optical, magnetic and semiconductor. The earliest of these was the magnetic device. Computer systems began with magnetic storage in the form of tapes (yes, just like a cassette or video tape).
Detailed explanation-3: -Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Solid State Drive. Random Access Memory (RAM) CD, DVD and Blu-Ray Discs. DVD-RAM. ROM. USB Flash Memory.