COMPUTER HARDWARE
STORAGE DEVICES
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HDD
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SSD
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Magnetic tape
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DVD
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Blu-ray
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Detailed explanation-1: -Magnetic tapes can store up to one terabyte of uncompressed data-as much as can be stored on a hard disk. Magnetic tape uses ‘serial access’ to find a piece of data.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -A magnetic tape drive is a storage device that makes use of magnetic tape as a medium for storage. It uses a long strip of narrow plastic film with tapes of thin magnetizable coating.
Detailed explanation-4: -Magnetic tape uses serial (sequential) access to read/write data. It works much like a movie film reel. Magnetic tape is one of the oldest forms of computer data storage media and it can store vast amounts of data. This is one of the oldest forms of computer data storage.