COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER HARDWARE

STORAGE DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Storage device that uses serial access and in a very slow form of data access, called?
A
Magnetic tape
B
CD-R/CD-RW
C
Memory stick
D
HDD
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The tape is a sequential-access medium, which means that it may require a comparatively lengthy time to locate a specific piece of data. The information on tape can be arranged in several ways. The earliest approaches used linear multitrack recoding, illustrated in Fig.

Detailed explanation-2: -Techopedia Explains Magnetic Tape Drive The tapes are usually stored on cartridges or cassettes, but for drives that are used as data storage tape backups, the tape is often wound on reels.

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