Mass Storage Technologies Flashcards
(31 cards)
What are the 3 main types of storage technology for PC’s
Optical as in CD,
Magnetic as in Hard Disk Drives.
Solid State Drives as in Flash drives.
What is LBA?
Logical Block Addressing.
Used as an interface between OS and the drive to define location and organisation of data on a drive. Similar to a driver.
Put these in order:
Peta,
Giga,
Tera,
Exa,
Mega,
Kilo
- Kilo
- Mega
- Giga
- Tera
- Peta
- Exa
Physical size of optical media?
5.25”
Physical size of Desktop HDD?
3.5”
Physical size of Latptop HDD?
2.5”
Physcial size of SSD?
2.5”
CD, DVD and Bluray are what type of storeage?
Optical Media.
Hard Disk Drives are what type off storeage?
Magnetic.
M.2 is what type of storage?
Solid State Drive.
What size drive is now almost obsolete and extremely rare and what is replacing it dominantly?
1.8” being replaced by M.2 SSD.
What storage media is 5.25”
Optical media?
What storage media is 3.5”
Desktop HDD
What storage media is 2.5”
SSS and Latptop HDD
What does ATA stand for?
Advanced Technology Aattachment.
What does PATA stand for?
Parrallel Adavanced Technology Attatchement.
What does SATA stand for?
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment.
what is eSATA
External SATA, Serial Advanced Technology Attachement.
Where on a PC can you find eSATA
Motherboard I/O and expansion cards.
Available sizes for HDD?
3.5”, 2.5”, 1.8”
What is NVMe?
Non-Volatile Memory Express.
A protocol that has increased performance instead of SATA.
The difference between HDD and SSD?
HDDs have moving parts storing data on platters using magnatism.
SSDs have no moving parts and stores data on flash chips.
SSD is faster.
How is data stored on devices in their smallest size?
Blocks and pages.
what are the 2 most common SSD formats?
2.5” and M.2
