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What is magnetic tape mainly used for?
The most common form of magnetic storage in computers is the
What type of magnetic storage device is used in cassette tapes?
Read/write head
What is a disadvantage of floppy disks?
What is the storage capacity of a typical hard disk drive?
What is the main purpose of magnetic cards?
In
storage, data is stored on a disk or tape by magnetizing particles in a particular pattern to represent the binary digits of the data.
is the process of encoding data in magnetic patterns on a disk or other storage media.
Data mirroring
What type of data is commonly stored on magnetic tape?
is a method of accessing data on a disk in which the read/write head stays on a single track while the platters rotate.
Which of the following is a disadvantage of magnetic tape?
Which type of drive is more susceptible to shocks and drops?
What is the main disadvantage of magnetic storage?
are circular rings on a disk that divide the disk into sectors for storing data.
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is a magnetic storage device that uses a thin, circular disk to store information.
What magnetic storage device was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s?
Disk controller
What is the function of the read/write head in a hard disk drive?
