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Storage Devices Overview

The document discusses different storage devices and their characteristics. It defines a storage device as an electronic device that stores data for future use, such as hard disks, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, and USB drives. Hard disks are described as the most commonly used internal storage device that provides fast access to large amounts of data. USB drives are portable but can be easily lost or accessed without authorization. CDs have limited storage capacity and can only be written to once, while hard disks and USB drives allow reading from and writing to storage.

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Storage Devices Overview

The document discusses different storage devices and their characteristics. It defines a storage device as an electronic device that stores data for future use, such as hard disks, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, and USB drives. Hard disks are described as the most commonly used internal storage device that provides fast access to large amounts of data. USB drives are portable but can be easily lost or accessed without authorization. CDs have limited storage capacity and can only be written to once, while hard disks and USB drives allow reading from and writing to storage.

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Chapter: 6

Storage Devices

1. What is a storage device?


Ans: A storage device is an electronic device capable of storing data for future
use e.g. hard disk, floppy disk, CDs, DVDs, pen drives, 5D glass storage (360 TB)
etc.

2. What is a hard disk?


Ans: Hard disk is the most commonly used storage device located inside the CPU.
Hard disks provide fast access to programs and data and can store 12 TB of data.
A hard disk can be internal or external.

3. What is a pen drive? What are its advantages and disadvantages?


Ans: A pen drive is a portable USB (Universal Serial Bus) flash memory device for
storing and transferring data files from a computer.

Advantages:
i) small
ii) fast
iii) more durable and reliable
iv) portable

Disadvantages:
I) easy to lose
II) easy for unauthorized access
III) may contain computer viruses

4. Differentiate between CD, pen-drive and hard disk.

CD Pen-drive Hard disk


Storage 700-800 MB 4 GB – 1 TB 120 GB– 12 TB
Read/Write Write only one time Read and Write Read and Write
Access time Slow Fast Fast
Portability Difficult Yes External HDD – yes
Internal HDD – no
Exercise-B Page-45

CD-ROM Hard disk


1. Round in shape 1. Rectangle in shape
2. 700 MB storage space. 2. Large storage spaces.
3. No scratches on the surface. 3. Always fixed inside the computer.
4. Read data. 4. Read and write data.

Exercise-C

1. Computers store data in hard disks.


2. Students can store data in a CD.
3. A Pen drive is portable.
4. A CD can store less data than hard disk.

Chapter: 9 Reasoning & Logic

1. What is logic?
Ans: Logic is the science of clear and correct thinking. It is used to find relations
between sentences, breakdown complex events into simpler, smaller events and
come to conclusions or find answers.

2. Do computers follow logic?


Ans: Since the computer is a machine, it follows logic. Computers are logical
machines. Every operation that a computer performs involves many logical steps.

3. What are the binary addition rules?


Ans: The binary addition rules are:
a) 0 + 0 = 0
b) 0 + 1 = 1
c) 1 + 0 = 1
d) 1 + 1 = 10 ;[0 carry 1]
e) 1 + 1 + 1 = 11 ;[1 carry 1]
4. Add the following binary numbers:

a. 100111 b. 11100010 c. 11110000 d. 11001100


+10101 +10011001 +11111111 +10011110
111100 101111011 111101111 101101010

e. 1111 f. 10101010 g. 10101010 h. 11011010


+101 + 1101 +10101010 +11100101
10100 10110111 101010100 110111111

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