COMPUTER HARDWARE
STORAGE DEVICES
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Magnetic Tape
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Flash drive
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Cassette Tape
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CD ROM
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Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of storage medium that use serial access are: Video cassettes. Music cassettes. Backup tape cartridges(hold lots of tape for backing up large amounts of data).
Detailed explanation-2: -A common example of sequential access is with a tape drive, where the device must move the tape’s ribbon forward or backward to reach the desired information. The opposite would be RAM (Random Access Memory) going anywhere on the chip to access the information.
Detailed explanation-3: -Compact cassettes are logically, as well as physically, sequential; they must be rewound and read from the start to load data.
Detailed explanation-4: -The term was coined by IBM to describe devices that allowed random access to data, the main examples being drum memory and hard disk drives. Later, optical disc drives and flash memory units are also classified as DASD.