Multiple choice

Disketts and hard disks are

  1. direct access devices

  2. sequential access devices

  3. slower than magnetic tape

  4. used only in mainframe computers
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Explanation

Direct access devices can access any location directly by moving the read/write head. Diskettes and hard disks use random access via track/sector addressing. Sequential access (like tape) requires scanning from the beginning.

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