COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER HARDWARE

STORAGE DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the disadvantage of using magnetic storage devices?
A
They can be easily affected by magnetic fields.
B
Because it uses blue lasers which have shorter wavelengths.
C
to make the copy of original data to in case you lose your original data.
D
it is a disk with bumps can be read by laser
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The magnetic disk is less valuable to data corruption due to careless handling. Due to random access property, a magnetic disk is often used by multiple users as a shared device. Floppy disk and another is to be zip disk is also easily portable from one place to another. They are used for the transfer of data.

Detailed explanation-2: -Disadvantages of magnetic tape: Data quality erodes over time. This tape is necessary to keep older tape equipment just to be able to read the stored data. If the data is stored ear a strong magnetic field or large speaker, the tape can be damaged.

Detailed explanation-3: -The correct answer is It provides only sequential access to stored data.

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