[Solved] Which of the following is not true for a magnetic disk?

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Q.	Which of the following is not true for a magnetic disk?
A.	It is expensive relative to magnetic tape
B.	It provides only sequential access to stored data
C.	Users can easily update records by writing over the old data
D.	All of these
E.	None of these
Answer» B. It provides only sequential access to stored data

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