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Electrical current can generate a magnetic field but a magnetic field cannot generate electricity.

Magnetic disk media are flat, circular ____________________ with metallic coatings that are rotated beneath read/write heads.

SSDs are much more tolerant to shock and other negative environmental factors commonly encountered with portable devices, such as multifunction cell phones, netbooks, and laptop computers.

Magneto-optical technology peaked in the mid-1980s.

The latest trend in high-performance CPU design embeds multiple CPUs and cache memory on a single chip—an approach called ____.

Multiple-processor architecture is not common in workstations.

Magnetic disk drives have an advantage over SSDs in power consumption.

MP3 compresses the audio data stream by discarding information about masked sounds or representing them with fewer bits.

A ____ storage device stores and retrieves data items in a linear, or sequential, order.

The time needed to move from one track to another is called ____, typically measured in milliseconds.