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    Storage devices include magnetic disks like hard disks that store data on spinning magnetic platters in circular tracks using magnetic heads. Hard disks have high storage capacity and moderate speed, storing information in sectors within tracks on coated platters. Optical disks also provide storage, using laser beams to record data at high densities, and include technologies like compact disks and magneto-optical drives.

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    Storage devices include magnetic disks like hard disks that store data on spinning magnetic platters in circular tracks using magnetic heads. Hard disks have high storage capacity and moderate speed, storing information in sectors within tracks on coated platters. Optical disks also provide storage, using laser beams to record data at high densities, and include technologies like compact disks and magneto-optical drives.

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    STORAGE DEVICES

    These are the secondary devices used for storing a large amount of data permanently.

    Types of storage devices

    Magnetic disk Hard disk

    Optical disks

    Magnetic Disk
    These have large storage capacities wit moderate operating speed. They store information on circular disks.

    These disks are continually spinning and are coated with magnetic material.
    Information is recorded on them by using magnetic heads by drawing circular tracks on them.

    HARD DISK
    It stores information in the form of circular platters which are continually spinning and are coated with magnetic materials. The information is recorded on it with the help of magnetic heads in bands called tracks. Each track is divided into pie-shaped sections called sectors. Each sector holds a specified number of characters.

    OPTICAL DISKS

    They have high recording densities.


    These make use of the laser beams for recording information . These are of two types: (1) Compact disks (2) Magneto-optical drives

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