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q explain disk cartridges disk cartridges removable disk cartridges are an option to hard disk units as a form of secondary storage cartridge
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dvd-rom employs same principle as a cd-rom for reading and writing however a smaller wavelength laser beam is used total capacity of dvd-rom is 85gb
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the main benefits of cd-roms are these are removable disks thus they are suitable for archival storage mass replication is cheap and fast large
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q what do you mean by drive cachedisk cache may be a part of ram sometimes known as soft disk cache which is used to speed up access time on a disk
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