COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER HARDWARE

STORAGE DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of these is not a type of Hard Drive?
A
Magnetic
B
Solid State
C
Optical
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is option 2 i.e Magnetic tape.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Among the options given here, CD-R, DVD, and CD-RW (that is, options a, b, and d respectively), are the optical storage device types. On the other hand, a Hard Disk is not an optical storage device, but, a type of magnetic storage device. Thus, the correct answer will be ‘option c’.

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