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What is a Computer storage medium that operates using digitized beams of light?
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CDRW and DVDRW
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What means you can move the medium from one computer to another?
portable storage medium
Is diskette a part of a computer?
No, it is a removable storage medium that may be used by a computer.
What is is the amount of data that a storage device can move from the storage medium to the computer per second?
Transfer rate.
What storage medium is stored as Light reflecting from pits and lands?
Optical Storage Medium
What is the biggest computer storage space?
If you are asking what the largest storage component in a personal computer is, that would be the hard drive. The hard drive is a non volatile storage medium. Meaning it holds its data, even when the power is turned off.
When you save a document does the computer transfer the document from a storage medium to memory?
No. It transfers it from memory to a storage device, so it does the opposite.
What is a storage tape?
A storage tape is a high quality medium (often 8mm wide now) in a cartridge used to store backups of computer system files.
What are the three main tools to maintain the files on a computer's storage medium?
Defrag, chkdsk, are the two big ones.
What is the purpose of auxiliary storage device in the computer and the function?
Auxiliary storage devices are used to provide additional, portable storage, as opposed to hard drives which are fixed inside the computer and serve as primary storage devices. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Auxiliary storage is a term used in mainframe computing and refers to the medium on which paging datasets reside.
Ram is classified as what kind of storage in a computer system?
RAM is volatile storage, short-term storage or working memory. As opposed to a hard-drive which is non-volatile, long term storage or a mass-storage medium.
Use of direct view storage tube?
A direct view storage tube is used to display an image for a period of time after it was illuminated. They are used as a computer-display medium and have a high resolution.
What is difference between elelectronic storage and hard copy storage?
Electronic Storage is usually referring to data stored on some type of computer related storage medium, such as hard drives, CDROM, memory cards, etc. In other words, its data in computer form, 1's and 0's, stored in a format that a computer understands. Hard Copy storage would be on paper or the equivalent, stored in human form and readable by us.
