Digital Storage

_____ measures the amount of time it takes a storage device to locate an item on a storage medium and/or the time required to deliver an item from memory to the processor

• Rpm

• Transfer time

• Access time

• Clock speed

A(n) _____ is a storage device that contains one or more inflexible, circular platters that use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information

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A(n) _____ is a flash memory storage device that contains its own processor to manage its storage

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Which of the following is not an advantage of SSDs over hard disks?

• Less power consumption

• Defragmentation is not required

• Faster transfer rates

• More cheaper than hard disk

A group of two or more integrated hard drives is called a(n)_____

• RAID

• SSD

• HDD

• EIDE

A(n) _____ is a type of memory card that is often used in personal computers.

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A disc you can read but not write on or erase is a _____

• CD-RW

• CD-ROM

• multisession

• WORM

The process of copying audio and/or video data from a purchased disc and saving it on your own media is called _____

• ripping

• burning

• tearing

• formatting

Enterprise storage often uses _____ technology as the interface that connects the devices to the network because it has much faster transmission rates than SCSI

• SAS

• serial transfer

• Fibre Channel (FC)

• SATA

A selective backup sometimes is called a(n) _____ backup

• differential

• incremental

• partial

• archival