A hard drive is... a self-contained rotating disc to which data is both written and read. a system of high cap

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A hard drive is...


a self-contained rotating disc to which data is both written and read.


a system of high capacity silicon chips with no moving mechanical parts.


a Mylar disc coated in iron oxide that allows data to be saved and shared.


a stick of flash memory with an integrated connection port.

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The first option is correct: a hard drive is a self-contained rotating disc (actually one or more spinning magnetic platters) to which data is read and written by moving read/write heads.

(For clarity: option 2 describes an SSD, option 3 a floppy disk/magnetic disk, and option 4 a USB flash drive.)

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A hard drive is... a self-contained rotating disc to which data is both written and read. a system of high capacity silicon chips with no moving mechanical parts. a Mylar disc coated in iron oxide that allows data to be saved and shared. a stick of flash memory with an integrated connection port.

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