Hardware STORAGE DEVICES

Question 1

Define storage

Answer 1

A way to keep information long-term

Question 2

Define storage medium

Answer 2

One method

Question 3

Define storage media

Answer 3

Multiple Methods

Question 4

Give an example where we, as humans can store information w/o computers

Answer 4

Paper

Question 5

Give an example of optical storage

Answer 5

CD, DVD, and Blue-ray

Question 6

What is bigger, MB or GB?

Answer 6

GB

Question 7

How does Optical Storage work?

Answer 7

Uses different reflections of light to read data, and uses a laser to write data

Question 8

How does Disks work?

Answer 8

Some bits on the Disk are flat and some have bumps (a pit). The laser will shine down and will bounce straight up, the reflection might be a binary 1, if there was a little bump/pit , the laser will shine down and will reflect in a slight weird manner, which will be read as binary 0 —> therefore you can have loads of this and have files created in binary.

Question 9

Where is the info stored on the Disk?

Answer 9

On the disk

Question 10

How do you read Disks?

Answer 10

Using the laser

Question 11

Name a con about disks.

Answer 11

Can store less than other storage