Exam 3: Storage

A(n) ____________________ stores copies of data or programs that are located on the hard drive and that might be needed soon in memory chips in order to avoid having to retrieve the data or programs from the hard drive when they are requested.

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 3-2 Rodney owns a computer that he uses to work, keep in touch with friends and family, watch movies, listen to music, and use the Internet. Rodney wants to be able to easily carry files with him wherever he goes but he also has a tendency to lose things. Knowing this, he should probably save those files on a ____ drive which he can then attach to his backpack.

A ____ partition contains the data necessary to restore a hard drive back to its state at the time the computer was purchased and is designed to be used only if the computer malfunctions.

The elements shown in the accompanying figure are ____, which are used to organize related documents.

A common RAID technique is disk mirroring, in which data is written to two duplicate drives simultaneously.

Optical discs are thin circular discs made out of molded polycarbonate substrates.

Online storage systems accessed via the Internet have the advantage of being able to be accessed from any PC that has an Internet connection.

Usually the storage device and storage medium are two separate pieces of hardware (that is, the storage medium is ____).

Anything (such as a program, letter, digital photograph, or song) stored on a storage medium is referred to as a(n) ____.

A strategy for speeding up hard drive performance is ____.

The objective of disk mirroring is to increase ____________________.

A ____, as shown in the accompanying figure, consists of a vertical stack of tracks, with the same relative track on each disk surface.

____________________ provide storage for a network, and consist of a separate network of hard drives or other storage devices.

____ optical discs can be recorded on, erased, and overwritten just like magnetic disks.

Partitioning a hard drive enables you to logically divide the physical capacity of a single drive into separate areas, called partitions or ____________________.

In terms of functionality, the distinction between NAS and HHDs is blurring, since they both provide storage services to the network.

A(n) ____________________ hard drive is a hard drive that contains both a large amount of flash memory and magnetic hard disks.

What kind of applications are holographic data storage systems suited for?

Partitions are sometimes referred to as ____.

Media that allow random access are sometimes referred to as ____ media.