Computer Literacy: Drives, Storage, and Data

What is this called?

• Hard Drive

• Floppy Drive

• Floppy Disk

• Bluray

• Compact Disk

How does a computer read these?

• Through bits

• Through magnets

• Through transistors

• Through data

• Through blue light

What are these?

• SSD (Solid State Drive)

• SATA Drives (Serial ATA)

• M.2 Drives

• HDD (Hard Disk Drives)

What is this?

• SSD (Solid State Drive)

• SATA Drives (Serial ATA)

• M.2 Drives

• HDD (Hard Disk Drives)

This is called a(n)

• Optical Drive (OD)

• Power Supply Unit (PSU)

• Case fan

• Heatsink

The hard drive is like the brain in that

• It powers the motherboard

• It remembers the motherboard

• It has long term memory

• It tells the computer what to do.

All computers only know 1 and 0. What is this know as?

• Binary

• Byplane

• Bittorent

• Zeroes

• Ones

With computers, 1 and 0 means

• Flipped

• Flopped

• Maybe

• On

• Off

What is bigger?

• Byte

• Bit

If your hard drive is 5 MB, what does MB stand for?

• Milton Bradley

• Megabits

• Megabytes

• Mirabytes