Computer Science Storage Revision

Secondary storage devices can be grouped into three categories - what are they?

• Magnetic, Flash and Optical

• Magnetic, Optical and Solid State

• Solid State, Flash and Hard Drives

• Hard Drives, CDs and USBs

Hard Disk Drives are a type of...

• Optical storage device

• Magnetic storage device

• Solid State memory

• Primary memory

CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays are all types of...

• Magnetic storage devices

• Optical storage devices

• Solid State memory

• Primary memory

Magnetic tape storage is what kind of device...

• Solid state memory

• Optical storage

• Magnetic storage

• Primary memory

What category of storage device is a HD card?

• Magnetic

• Optical

• Solid state

• Primary memory

What category of storage is a Blu-Ray disk?

• Magnetic

• Optical

• Solid State

• Primary memory

Which of the 3 categories of secondary storage is the least durable due to its moving parts?

• Optical storage

• Primary memory

• Solid state storage

• Magnetic storage

Which optical storage device has an average memory size of around 4.7GB?

• CD

• DVD

• Blu-Ray

• USB flash drive

Which category of secondary storage devices has the fastest access speeds? (i.e. quicker to read and write to)

• Magnetic storage

• Solid state storage

• Primary memory

• Optical memory

Which category of secondary storage devices has the slowest access speeds? (i.e. slower to read and write to/from)

• Magnetic devices

• Optical devices

• Solid state memory

• Primary storage