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Co-Auxiliary Memory

Auxiliary memory is the lowest-cost, highest-capacity, and slowest-access storage in computer systems, used for long-term data storage. Common examples include magnetic disks, which use magnetized surfaces to store data in tracks and sectors, and magnetic tapes, which archive data using a plastic strip coated with a magnetic medium. Magnetic tapes record bits in blocks called records and allow for data archiving and backup.

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Co-Auxiliary Memory

Auxiliary memory is the lowest-cost, highest-capacity, and slowest-access storage in computer systems, used for long-term data storage. Common examples include magnetic disks, which use magnetized surfaces to store data in tracks and sectors, and magnetic tapes, which archive data using a plastic strip coated with a magnetic medium. Magnetic tapes record bits in blocks called records and allow for data archiving and backup.

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Auxiliary Memory

An Auxiliary memory is known as the lowest-cost, highest-capacity and slowest-access


storage in a computer system. It is where programs and data are kept for long-term
storage or when not in immediate use. The most common examples of auxiliary
memories are magnetic tapes and magnetic disks.

Magnetic Disks: A magnetic disk is a type of memory constructed using a circular


plate of metal or plastic coated with magnetized materials. Usually, both sides of the
disks are used to carry out read/write operations. However, several disks may be
stacked on one spindle with read/write head available on each surface.

The following image shows the structural


representation for a magnetic disk.

o The memory bits are stored in the magnetized


surface in spots along the concentric circles
called tracks.
o The concentric circles (tracks) are commonly
divided into sections called sectors.

Magnetic Tape: Magnetic tape is a storage medium


that allows data archiving, collection, and backup for different kinds of data. The
magnetic tape is constructed using a plastic strip coated with a magnetic recording
medium.

The bits are recorded as magnetic spots on the tape along several tracks. Usually,
seven or nine bits are recorded simultaneously to form a character together with a
parity bit.

Magnetic tape units can be halted, started to move forward or in reverse, or can be
rewound. However, they cannot be started or stopped fast enough between individual
characters. For this reason, information is recorded in blocks referred to as records.

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