Storage Devices

Question 1

Hard Disk Drives, Floppy Disk Drives & Tape Disk Drives are types of

Answer 1

Magnetic Storage

Question 2

The operating system as well as frequently accessed data is stored on the _______________

Answer 2

Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

Question 3

Hard Drives are non-volatile meaning they___________________________

Answer 3

Will not lose data when the power is off.

Question 4

What’s the max data rate of SATA Hard Drive?

Answer 4

600MB/s

Question 5

How many pins does a SATA hard drive cable have?

Answer 5

7 pin flat

Question 6

How man pins does a hard drive power connector have?

Answer 6

15

Question 7

SATA Revision 3.0 has a standard max data rate of ________

Answer 7

6.0Gb/s

Question 8

SATA Revision 1.0 has a standard max data rate of__________________

Answer 8

1.0Gb/s

Question 9

SATA Revision 2.0 has a standard max data rate of__________________

Answer 9

3.0Gb/s

Question 10

Which RAID type writes evenly across several disks so that no one disk receives all the activity.

Answer 10

RAID 0

Question 11

Computer’s ability to respond to a fault or catastrophe

Answer 11

Fault Tolerance

Question 12

What does RAID stand for?

Answer 12

Redundancy Array of Independent Disks

Question 13

Which RAID type uses mirroring?

Answer 13

RAID 1

Question 14

Which RAID type duplicates data on one drive to another drive?

Answer 14

RAID 1

Question 15

Which RAID type uses parity checking and stripes data across the drives?

Answer 15

RAID 5

Question 16

Which RAID type duplicates data on one drive to another drive and stripes it to more drives?

Answer 16

RAID 10

Question 17

What is the max speed of a CD-R?

Answer 17

48X(7.2MB/s) or 52x (7.8MB/s)

Question 18

What is the max speeed of a CD-RW

Answer 18

24X(3.6MB/s) or 32x (4.8MB/s)

Question 19

Refers to a table that an operating system maintains on a hard disk that provides a map of the clusters (the basic units of logical storage on a hard disk) that a file has been stored in.

Answer 19

FAT = File allocation table

Question 20

Memory that is broken up into blocks that are 16KB-512KB

Answer 20

NAND Flash Memory

Question 21

What is the storage capacity of a CD

Answer 21

700MB

Question 22

What is the storage capacity of a DVD Dual layer disc?

Answer 22

8.5GB

Question 23

What is the storage capacity of a DVD single layer disc?

Answer 23

4.7GB

Question 24

What is the storage capacity of a Blu Ray Dual layer disc?

Answer 24

50GB

Question 25

What is the storage capacity of a Blu Ray single layer disc?

Answer 25

25GB

Question 26

What is the most common DVD technology?

Answer 26

DVD-5

Question 27

What is storage space of a DVD-5?

Answer 27

4.7GB

Question 28

How many minutes of video can a DVD-5 store

Answer 28

120minutes

Question 29

A DVD disk with two sides and two layers of data on both sides is also referred to as a __________

Answer 29

DVD-18

Question 30

What storage device can store the exact same things as an HDD (such as OS and files) but with no moving parts?

Answer 30

SSD (Solid State Drives)

Question 31

Standard SSD form factor is

Answer 31

2.5 inches wide

Question 32

NAND Memory is flash memory that is broken up into blocks that are between______________

Answer 32

16-512KB

Question 33

Type II Compact Flash Cards are how thick?

Answer 33

5mm

Question 34

Type I Compact Flash cards are ______thick.

Answer 34

3.3mm

Question 35

SDIO stands for

Answer 35

Secure Digital Input Out card