Exam 7: Storage

____ time measures the amount of time it takes a storage device to locate an item on a storage medium.

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

A(n) _________________________ is a small, rectangular, plastic housing for tape.

A hard disk that is mounted inside the system unit sometimes is called a ____.

On a magnetic disk, a sector typically stores up to 24 bytes of data.

Place a CD or DVD in its protective case, called a(n) _________________________, when it is not being used.

Most computers today do not include a floppy disk drive as standard equipment.

The greater the disk cache, the slower the hard disk.

____ is the newest type of hard disk interface and uses serial signals to transfer data, instructions, and information.

The hard disk that is mounted inside the system unit sometimes is called a(n) ____ disk.

____ is the process of transferring data, instructions, and information from memory to a storage medium.

Traditionally, hard disks stored data using ____ recording, which aligned the magnetic particles horizontally around the surface of the disk.

Writing on a CD-R requires a(n) _________________________, which usually can read both audio CDs and standard CD-ROMs.

On desktop computers, platters have a(n) ____ factor, or size, of approximately 3.5 inches in diameter.

Experts estimate that hard disks using perpendicular recording will provide storage capacities about ____ than disks that use longitudinal recording.

_________________________ use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information on a disk's surface.

BD-R and ____ are competing high-capacity DVD-recordable formats.

The storage capacity of a DVD-ROM is ____ that of a CD because images are stored at higher resolutions.

A disk's storage locations consist of pie-shaped sections, which break the tracks into small arcs called ____.

A(n) _________________________ is a storage device that contains one or more inflexible, circular platters that magnetically store data, instructions, and information.