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Optical Storage Mediums
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The most common way of storing data in a computer is magnetic. We have hard
drives and floppy disks (soon making way to the CD-ROM), both of which can store
some amount of data. In a disk drive, a read/write head (usually a coil of
wire) passes over a spinning disk, generating an electrical current, which
defines a bit as either a 1 or a 0. The ....
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....overing the data areas, and that the ΓheadΓ of the drive can
be quite far away from the disk surface (a few millimeters compared to
micrometers for a hard drive). If this medium is so superior, then why is it
not standard equipment? It is. Most of the new computers have a CD-ROM drive
that comes with it. Also, it is only recently that prices .... |
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