Exam 3: Storage

Partitioning a hard drive enables you to divide the physical capacity of a single hard drive logically into separate areas, called partitions or ____________________.

To speed up magnetic hard drive performance, ____ is often used.

Remote storage services accessed via the Internet are often referred to as cloud storage or online storage. These services can be provided either as a stand-alone service or as part of a cloud computing service. _________________________

Anything (such as a program, letter, digital photograph, or song) stored on a storage medium is referred to as a(n) ____.

Although both the user and the computer use drive letters, ____ names, and filenames to save and retrieve documents, they perceive them differently.

The time required to move the read/write heads to the cylinder that contains (or will contain) the desired data is called ____.

The partition size, cluster size, maximum drive size, and maximum file size that can be used with a hard drive are determined by the  ____________________ being used.

Storage media are ____________________, meaning that  the data  remains  on the media even when the power to the computer or storage device is off.

When hard drives containing critical data become damaged, systems design firms may be able to help out. _________________________

Large enterprise storage systems are typically ____________________ so more hard drives can be added as needed.

Recordable optical discs can be written to, but the discs cannot be erased and reused.

The types of ____ systems used with personal and business computers today include smart cards.

Data files are often called ____.

The ____ cards used with mobile phones today are a special type of smart card.

With rewritable optical media, the laser permanently alters the disc surface.

A smart card can store a prepaid amount of ____________________, which can be used for purchases at a smart card-enabled vending machine.

Computer tapes are read by tape drives , which can be either an internal or an external piece of hardware. _________________________

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 3-2 Rodney owns a computer that he uses to work, keep in touch with friends and family, watch movies, listen to music, and use the Internet. If Rodney wants to record music files onto a CD, he needs to make sure that his operating system has CD-____ capabilities.

RAID 0 uses disk ____, which spreads files over two or more hard drives.

Users do not have to be concerned with how files are physically stored on a storage medium.