Exam 3: Storage

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

-Most computer tapes today are in the form of ____ tapes,as shown in the accompanying figure.

Usually the storage device and storage medium are two separate pieces of hardware (that is,the storage medium is ____).

A ____ partition contains the data necessary to restore a hard drive back to its state at the time the computer was purchased and is designed to be used only if the computer malfunctions.

Although cost is a factor when comparing similar devices,it is often not the most compelling reason to choose a particular technology.

CD-ROM discs and DVD-ROM discs are ____ optical discs and come prerecorded with commercial products.

Levels beyond RAID 1 use some combination of disk striping and disk ____________________,with different types of error correction provisions.

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. -Rodney wants to be able to easily carry files with him wherever he goes but he also has a tendency to lose things.Knowing this,he should probably save those files on a ____ drive which he can then attach to his backpack.

Recordable CDs are referred to as ____________________ discs.

Many new personal computers come with a C drive partition ready to use for programs and data and another logical drive set up as a recovery partition.

While the memory used for disk caching can be a designated portion of RAM,today's hard drives typically use a disk cache consisting of memory chips located on a circuit board inside the hard drive case.

With random access,the data can only be retrieved in the order in which it is physically stored on the medium.

Discuss how storage media differ from RAM in terms of volatility.

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 be able to record,erase,and overwrite the files on a CD,he should get a ____.

Most storage servers are based on magnetic hard disks,although SSD and magnetic tape storage systems are also possible.

Virtually all computer users today need at least one convenient free USB port,in order to connect external hard drives,flash memory drives,and other storage hardware.

The cluster size,maximum drive size,and maximum file size are determined by the ____________________ being used.

What term is used to refer to the total time a hard drive takes to read or write data,and what are the steps it requires?

A strategy for speeding up hard drive performance is ____.

To record data,holographic storage systems split the light from a blue laser beam into ____ beams.