Types of Storage Media

Question 1

What are the four main types of storage media?

Answer 1

HDDs, SSDs, ODDs and Magnetic Tape Drives.

Question 2

What is a hard disk drive (HDDs)

Answer 2

Refers to an electromechanical storage device that storages data on circular disks called platters that coated with magnetic material

Question 3

How do HDDs record data?

Answer 3

HDDs work via polarization on a small area on the surface of the disk to represent binary code of 1s and 0s

Question 4

What’s the most common and cheapest storage media?

Answer 4

Hard disk drives

Question 5

What are solid state drives (SSDs)?

Answer 5

A storage device that uses flash technology to store data. SSDs use semi conductor chips and electricity and has no moving parts like HDDs

Question 6

What’s the most expensive and more fast type of storage media?

Answer 6

Solid State Drives

Question 7

What is an Optical Disk Drive (ODD)

Answer 7

A device that uses laser technology to read and write data to optical disks like CDs, DVDs and Blue-Ray Disks.

Question 8

What are ODDs used for?

Answer 8

A storage device used for long term storage, backup and archiving. Sometimes as an interim solution when migrating data of older legacy storage systems.

Question 9

What are Magnetic Tape Drives?

Answer 9

A storage device that uses magnetic tape to store and retrieve digital information. One of the the oldest form of storage. Mainly used for long term backup and archival storage