Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 5 - Exercises - Page 274: 17

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Sequential storage devices might be useful as backup for main memory, because it is cheap and backup is rarely used so low access time does not affect much. These can also be used to store music because we generally listen music from beginning to end sequentially. They can be used for scientific and research data because they involve massive datasets and sequential processing. Another use is for disaster recovery due to offline storage and portability.
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