Question

List the physical storage media available on the computers you use routinely. Give the speed with which data can be accessed on each medium. (Your answer will be based on the computers and storage media that you use)

Answer 1

In daily routine I use different physical storage media such as Hard disk drive, USB (Flash Memory). Data can be accesses through these devices at the speed of up to 100 Mbps and 1 Mbps respectively.

Step-by-step explanation:

There are different storage media that we can use to transfer data between different computer devices or store data permanently such as hard disk drive, floppy disk, optical storage devices (CD and DVD), USB (Flash Memory) and SD Cards. These storage medias have different purpose and different applications of use. All these devices works on different accessing speed of data.

In my daily routine, I usually use Hard disk drive for permanent storage of my important data and USB device for transferring data between different device or to keep data temporarily. Hard disk drives are available in terabyte size now a days while USB drives are available in the range 32 to 64 GB. Hard disk drive has data accessing speed of up to 100 Mbps and USB drive has almost speed of up to 1 Mbps to access data.