Chapter 7 Flashcards
Mass Storage Technologies
1
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What are some examples of mass storage/storage devices?
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Optical media, hard drives, solid state drives (SSD)
2
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What are the purpose of mass storage?
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We need a place to store all our data, applications, pictures, games operating systems, and more. The purpose of mass storage is to store things.
3
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True or False: No matter the storage device, they all have some kind of minimum storage, an atom, the smallest amount of storage it can handle?
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True
4
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How are hard drives divided?
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It can be divided into something called a sector which can be 512 bytes or 4096 bytes.
5
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How are SSD’s divided?
A
They can be divided into something called blocks which can be around 1000 bytes.
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