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capacity

the number of bytes a storage medium can hold

storage device

is the computer hardware that records and/or retrieves items to and from storage media.

reading

the process of transferring items from a storage medium into memory

writing

the process of transferring items from memory to a storage medium

storage medium

The physical material on which a computer keeps data, instructions, and information.

Access time measures:

the amount of time it takes a storage device to locate an item on a storage medium and the time required to deliver an item from memory to the processor

Hard disk

contains one or more inflexible, circular platters that use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information

Formatting

the process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors so that the operating system can store and locate data and information on the disk

RAID(redundant array of independent disks)

Is a group of 2 or more integrated hard diskd

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Terms in this set (25)

______ is the number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold.
Capability
File size
Disk dimension
Capacity

capacity

______ is the process of transferring items from a storage medium into memory.
Archiving
Reading
Writing
Scanning

reading

A megabyte is approximately 1 ______ bytes.
billion
million
trillion
thousand

million

______ is the process of dividing a hard disk into tracks and sectors.
Fragmentation
Dissection
Formatting
Detachment

formatting

What does a disk's form factor describe?
capacity
operating system
speed
size

size

A group of two or more integrated hard drives is called a(n) ______.
duplicate drive
SSD
RAID
multidisk

RAID

Which type of user is most likely to use a RAID?
enterprise
small business
mobile
home

enterprise

SDHC and miniSD are examples of ______.
USB flash drives
portable hard drives
controllers
memory cards

memory cards

Thumb drive is another term for a(n) ______.
SSD
memory card
memory stick
USB flash drive

USB flash drive

Which of the following cloud services does Carbonite provide?
stream music
synchronize files
back up files
write documents

back up files

Which of the following cloud services does Evernote provide?
back up files
synchronize files
write documents
stream music

write documents

The simplest RAID storage design writes data on two drives at the same time and is called ______.
divesting
duplicating
mirroring
striping

mirroring

Some RAID levels use ______, which splits data, instructions, and information across multiple drives in the array.
divesting
mirroring
duplicating
striping

striping

Credit cards are a type of ______ stripe card.
electronic
encoded
digital
magnetic

magnetic

A(n) ______ backup copies only the files that have changed since the last full backup.
selective
archival
partial
differential

differential

Items stored in RAM remain intact even when you turn off a computer or mobile device.
False
True

False

Hard disks are read/write storage media.
True
False

True

You should not remove a portable flash memory storage while it is in use because the operating system may still be accessing the device.
False
True

True

With a personal cloud, your files are stored on a server on the Internet that stores only just your files and is maintained by a cloud storage provider.
True
False

False

Desktops and traditional laptops usually have an optical disc drive.
False
True

True

In an optical disc, the absence of light is read as binary digit 1.
True
False

False

Outsourcing is when an enterprise offloads storage management to an outside organization or cloud storage provider.
False
True

True

A storage appliance has its own IP address.
True
False

True

Hard drives and flash memory storage use direct access storage techniques.
True
False

True

NFC is a technology that uses close-range radio signals to transmit data between devices or a device and a tag.
False
True

True

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Is the process of transferring items from a storage medium into a memory?

Writing is the process of transferring data, instructions and information from memory to a storage medium. Reading is the process of transferring these items from a storage medium into memory.

Which of the following is a storage medium?

A storage medium may be internal to a computing device, such as a computer's SSD, or a removable device such as an external HDD or universal serial bus (USB) flash drive. There are also other types of storage media, including magnetic tape, compact discs (CDs) and non-volatile memory (NVM) cards.

What is storage media quizlet?

a storage medium. physical material on which a computer keeps data, information, programs, and applications. ex: internal hard disks, external hard disks, memory cards, etc. Differentiate between writing and reading data to storage media.

When storage devices read data from storage media they function as a source of output?

When storage devices read from storage media, they function as a source of input. the number of bytes(characters) a storage medium can hold. a separate free standing storage device that connects when a cable to a USB port or other port on a computer or mobile device.