Storage media

Which of the following devices does not use flash memory to store data?

• Pen drive

• External Hard drive

• Memory Card

• SSD

This is a picture of

• External hard drive

• Hard disk

• Pen drive

• SSD

Below is not an advantage of optical disks.

• Very cheap

• easily portable

• higher capacity than hard drives

• None of the above

A magnetic tape has (a)   access.

Select the device that uses laser to read and write data.

• Magnetic tape

• Pen drive

• Memory stick

• Blu-ray

A blu-ray disk is uses a blue/violet laser to read the disk instead of the (a)   laser used for DVDs.

The following is not an advantage of a magnetic tape.

• High storage capacity

• Ideal for backup and archive

• Data can be easily retrieved

• Robust

On which of the following can data be written, erased and re-recorded.

• CD-ROM

• CD-R

• CD-RW

• None of the above

A hard drive has (a)   access.

A hard drive contains several disks where data is stored in concentric circles on the surface known as tracks and sections within each track are called (a)   .