Digital Storage

Question 1

what is data storage?

Answer 1

The process of storing data and information in a storage medium is known as data storage.

Question 2

what is digital storage?

Answer 2

When data is electronically stored on storage medium in digital devices such as desktop computer, laptop, smartphones, etc., it is known as Digital Storage.

Question 3

what are the two types of digital storage

Answer 3

Digital Storage can be broadly classified into two forms: temporary memory (Primary Storage) and permanent memory (Secondary Storage).

Question 4

what is a storage medium

Answer 4

Storage medium generally is any hardware that can store data permanently or temporarily.

Question 5

features of digital storage

Answer 5

In terms of memory hierarchy, the digital storage can be categorized as:

Question 6

differentiate between online and offline storage

Answer 6

Offline storage implies any storage that is not currently connected to the computer whereas online storage implies that the storage is currently connected to the computer.

Question 7

what is volatility

Answer 7

Whether the information is stored even after the system is turned off?

Question 8

what is mutability

Answer 8

Does it allow only reading, writing, or both, or overwriting of stored information?

Question 9

what is addressability

Answer 9

What type of addressing does it use to access stored information?

Question 10

what is accessibility

Answer 10

Can it access any information from anywhere in the same amount of time or due to sequential (one after another) storage of information the time to access information is dependent on the last accessed information.

Question 11

what is capacity

Answer 11

What is the total amount of information that the storage medium can hold?

Question 12

what is performance

Answer 12

What is the size of largest chunk of data, access time and the rate at which data can be read from or written to the device?

Question 13

what is security

Answer 13

Does it store encrypted data?

Question 14

what is energy use

Answer 14

Is it energy efficient?

Question 15

By default, the data is stored in the largest storage device _________ or _______________

Answer 15

1. the hard drive
2. secondary storage device (SSD)

Question 16

full form of NAS

Answer 16

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Question 17

what is cloud storage?

Answer 17

Cloud storage is an online storage that requires internet connectivity. It allows unlimited storage. It can be thought of as very large online data storage on the web. If you want to access the file anytime, anywhere you can just login into cloud storage and get the file. It is not needed to carry all your files in flash drives or CDs etc

Question 18

benefits of cloud storage

Answer 18

1. Usability and Accessibility
   It allows user to upload, download and organize data in folders. It can be accessed anytime and anywhere with internet connectivity.
2. Recovery
   It can be used as a backup device thus ensuring the availability of files even if they are deleted or corrupted on your local system.
3. Security
   The data on cloud storage is safeguarded against any type of hardware failure and can be accessed only after the identity of the user is assured through login and password.
4. Cost Saving
   It frees the owner from the additional cost of maintaining hardware and software to store data.
5. easy sharing - It allows sharing of data with other users. It allows to set permissions like read only, read and write etc.
6. Data Backup
   Cloud storage can perform automatic backups, which is very easy to schedule for one, many or all of the drive data.
7. Collaboration
   It allows multiple people to work on a document at the same time thus allowing collaboration. These multiple users can be at anyplace in the world. They would just need an internet connection.