Chapter 8: Digital Storage

Before any data can be read from or written on a hard disk, what must happen to the disk?

Items on a storage medium remain intact even when power is removed from the computer. What term describes this characteristic?

Some personal computer manufacturers provide a hard disk configuration that connects multiple smaller disks into a single unit that acts like a single large hard disk. What is this grouping called?

What causes a head crash on a hard disk?

What is the usual rate of speed for the platters in a hard disk?

What technology works with specially coated optical discs to etch labels directly on the disc?

What term refers to the amount of time it takes a storage device to locate an item on a storage medium?

Which of the following has a higher capacity and better quality than standard DVDs, especially for high-definition audio and video?

Which of the following storage devices typically has the fastest transfer rate?

Which statement best describes disk cache?

Which storage term used to measure capacity is approximately a billion bytes?

Which term is used to describe large businesses that require special hardware geared for heavy use, and maximum availability and efficiency to fit the needs of their hundreds or thousands of workers?

You are looking for a term that can be used to refer collectively to hard disks and SSDs inside a computer. Which of the following can you use?

The process of copying audio and/or video data from a purchased disc and saving it on digital media is called ____.

The use of microfilm and microfiche provides all of the following advantages EXCEPT ____.

What kind of disc is a type of storage media that consists of a flat, round, portable disc made of metal, plastic, and lacquer that is written to and read by a laser?

What kind of storage is an Internet service that provides storage to computer or mobile users?

Which of the following is a type of optical disc that users can read from but not write to or erase?

Which of the following is NOT a cloud storage provider that places a folder on your computer with contents you can synchronize across multiple devices?

Which of the following is not a competing rewritable DVD format?

Which of the following is the mechanism that reads and writes items in the drive as it barely touches the disk's recording surface?

Which of the following is true of SSDs compared to traditional hard disks?

Which of the following kinds of cards stores data on an integrated circuit embedded in the card?

Which of the following kinds of devices are servers connected to a network with the sole purpose of providing storage?

Which of the following overcomes the major disadvantage of CD-R disks, which is being able to write on them only once?

T/F: A hard disk's platters may continue to spin even after power is removed from the computer.

T/F: All computers can support multiple internal hard drives.

T/F: Because passive RFID tags contain a battery, they cannot be embedded in skin.

T/F: Disconnecting a USB flash drive while it is in use may cause damage to the files stored on the device.

T/F: DVD-R and DVD+R are competing DVD-recordable formats.

T/F: External hard drives never have greater capacities than internal hard drives.

T/F: Some DVDs are double-sided.

T/F: The greater the disk cache, the slower the hard disk.

T/F: The process of writing on an optical disc is called burning.

T/F: Writing is the process of transferring data, instructions, and information from a storage medium into memory.