Computing - Types of Secondary Storage

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In magnetic storage, the plate or magnetic disk is called a ...
platter
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Optical media is good for portability as it is shockproof and ...
waterproof
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The ... determines whether the bits are 1 or 0 in magnetic storage
polarity
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In magnetic storage, each track contains tiny ... each holding one bit of data
tracks
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In optical storage, light from ... are used to detect the reflections from the CD/DVD
lasers
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... is used to describe how easy a storage device is to be transported
portability
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In solid state drives, microscopic electronic switches (made from ... to store data)
transistors
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when the data is copied multiple times over several different locations
redundancy
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Magnetic storage is not robust as it has lots of parts that...
move
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... is used to describe how robust a storage device is
durability
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... drives have both magnetic and solid state storage
hybrid
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The storage device which uses pits and lands in order to detect whether it is a 1 or a 0
optical
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Solid state drives are made of ... memory
flash
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In cloud storage a building which stores a large amount of data on secondary storage devices is a ... centre
data
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Optical media is good for portability as it is shockproof and ...

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waterproof

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The ... determines whether the bits are 1 or 0 in magnetic storage

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In magnetic storage, each track contains tiny ... each holding one bit of data

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In optical storage, light from ... are used to detect the reflections from the CD/DVD

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