Primary storage devices include a computer's main memory, while secondary storage devices provide additional data storage capacity and include disk drives and tape storage. Disk drives offer random access to stored data from any location and have greater capacity, faster access times, and transfer rates than tape storage, which requires sequential access from the beginning. Good quality disks are characterized by large capacity, fast access and seek times, high data transfer rates, reliability, and low rotational latency.
Primary storage devices include a computer's main memory, while secondary storage devices provide additional data storage capacity and include disk drives and tape storage. Disk drives offer random access to stored data from any location and have greater capacity, faster access times, and transfer rates than tape storage, which requires sequential access from the beginning. Good quality disks are characterized by large capacity, fast access and seek times, high data transfer rates, reliability, and low rotational latency.
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Primary storage devices include a computer's main memory, while secondary storage devices provide additional data storage capacity and include disk drives and tape storage. Disk drives offer random access to stored data from any location and have greater capacity, faster access times, and transfer rates than tape storage, which requires sequential access from the beginning. Good quality disks are characterized by large capacity, fast access and seek times, high data transfer rates, reliability, and low rotational latency.
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_ More Capacity _ More Access time _ More Seek time _ More Data transfer rate _ More Reliability _ More Rotational latency time. 2. distinction between sequential access devices and random access devices with an example sequential access devices random access devices It must be accessed from the beginning It is possible to read data from any location Eg:- tape storage Eg:-disk storage 3. What are the types of storage devices? _ Primary storage _ Secondary storage 4. What is primary storage devices It is the main memory