Secondary Storage

Question 1

What is secondary storage?

Answer 1

Is the long term storage for data files, OS. We need this to access it again later, to use software and interact with the computer.

Question 2

What is a Hard Disk?

Answer 2

High-capacity and reliable storage.

Question 3

A hard disk drive is an external/internal storage.

Answer 3

Internal storage, and are often just called hard drives.

Question 4

Data is stored magnetically in small areas on the disk’s circular tasks.

Answer 4

HDDs

Question 5

are popular for backing up and transporting large amounts of data

Answer 5

HDDs

Question 6

HDDs are reliable/unreliable, short lasting/long and cannot/can be broken

Answer 6

Reliable, long, can.

Question 7

Solid state drives aren’t/are reliable, and are slow/fast

Answer 7

Are reliable and are fast.

Question 8

SSDs write/read faster than HDDs. Gives quicker time for booting up operating systems and files.

Question 9

SSDs are…

Answer 9

Storage devices with no moving parts.

Question 10

What type of memory do SSDs use?

Answer 10

Flash memory, a type of non-volatile memory.

Question 11

HDDs is cheaper than SSD
Higher capacity
Longer read/write life

Answer 11

SSDs are faster
Durable
Stronger.

Question 12

Optical disks are expensive/cheap

Answer 12

Cheap

Question 13

CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray are from

Answer 13

Optical

Question 14

Optical disks have…

Answer 14

Low capacity, not fast, unreliable and can get damaged easily.

Question 15

Magnetic tapes are used for archiving

Answer 15

Greater storage capacity than HDDs and is low cost per GB.

Question 16

Often used by large organisaitons

Answer 16

Magnetic Tapes