Exam 7: Storage

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Your sister is donating her old computer to a school. She has deleted her files from the computer, but you recommend that she also use a special tool to clean the contents of the hard disk. What kind of utility should she use?

When storage devices read data from storage media, they function as a source of output. C) TS: 1

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following statements is not true about solid state media?

Users subscribe to a cloud storage service, like the kind advertised in the accompanying figure, to do which of the following?

ExpressCard modules can be used to add all of the following capabilities to a computer except which of the following?

Current CD-RW drives have write speeds of 128X or more.

A(n) ____________________ occurs when a read/write head touches the surface of a hard disk platter, such as that shown in the accompanying figure, usually resulting in a loss of data and sometimes loss of the entire drive.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following statements is not true about hard drives?

Critical Thinking Questions Case 7-1 In all of the advertisements for personal computers, vendors usually state the type of hard disk interface supported by the hard disk controller. Therefore, it is important that you understand the types of available hard disk interfaces, so that you can make the most informed choice possible. You are in the market for a disk controller that will support a high number of peripheral devices. What disk controller will do the trick?

Explain the difference between perpendicular and longitudinal recording.

ExpressCard modules commonly are used in notebook computers.

Smaller computers and devices cannot use optical storage discs.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT What is the typical purpose of an archive disc?

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT Which of the following refers to the process of writing on an optical disc?

Which of the following is a small sheet of film, usually about 4 inches by 6 inches, that stores microscopic images of documents?

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

Which of the following devices is the computer hardware that records and/or retrieves items to and from storage media?

What kind of hard disk is a hard disk that you insert and take out of a drive, and that may either be built into the system unit or external and connected via a USB or FireWire port?

You can erase a DVD+R.

A group of two or more integrated hard disks is referred to as which of the following?