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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: -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-2: -Recordable and writable optical discs Formats such as CD-R and DVD-R are “Write once read many” or write-once, while CD-RW and DVD-RW are rewritable, more like a magnetic recording hard disk drive (HDD).

Detailed explanation-3: -Most of today’s optical disks are available in three formats: compact disks (CDs), digital versatile disks (DVDs)–also referred to as digital video disks–and Blu-ray disks, which provide the highest capacities and data transfer rates of the three.

Detailed explanation-4: -The correct answer is Optical disc. Compact Disc Read-Only Memory, a CD-ROM is an optical disc that contains audio or software data whose memory is read-only. An optical disc is an electronic data storage medium that can be written to and read from using a low-powered laser beam.

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