Computing Essentials 2017
Computing Essentials 2017
26th Edition
ISBN: 9781259563652
Author: Timothy J O'Leary Professor, Linda I. O'Leary, Daniel O'Leary
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Four important characteristics of the secondary storage.

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Four important characteristics of the secondary storage are media, capacity, storage devices and access speed.

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Media: They are physical device that holds the program and the data.

Capacity: It is the measures of how much data a storage medium can hold.

Storage devices: These are the hardware devices which helps in reading data and programs from storage media. Most of the time they are also used to write data on storage media as well.

Access speed: It measures the amount of time required by the storage device to retrieve programs and data from storage media.

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