Mass Storage Devices

Question 1

____________ refers to the tremendous amount of secondary storage requires by large organizations

Answer 1

Mass storage

Question 2

______________ are specialized high-capacity secondary storage devices designed to meet organizational demands for data storage.

Answer 2

Mass storage devices

Question 3

Most large organizations have established a strategy called an _________________ to promote efficient and safe use of data across the networks within their organizations.

Answer 3

enterprise storage system

Question 4

Some of the mass storage devices that support this strategy are as follows:

Answer 4

1. File servers
2. Network attached storage (NAS)
3. RAID systems
4. Organizational cloud storage

Question 5

_____________: dedicated computers with very large storage capacities that provide users access to fast storage and retrieval of data.

Answer 5

File servers

Question 6

_________________: a type of file server designed for homes and small businesses. NAS is less expensive, easier to set up, and easier to manage than most file servers. Does not include powerful management tools and features found in many large-scale servers.

Answer 6

Network attached storage (NAS)

Question 7

____________: larger versions of the specialized devices discussed earlier in this chapter that protect data by constantly making backup copies of files moving across the organizations networks.

Answer 7

RAID systems

Question 8

________________: high-speed internet connection to a dedicated remote storage facility. These facilities contain banks of file servers to offer enormous amounts of storage.

Answer 8

Organizational cloud storage

Question 9

An innovative and growing mass storage technology is _________________ systems. Is an architecture to link remote computer storage devices, such as enterprise storage systems, to computers such that the devices are as available as locally attached drives.

Answer 9

storage area network (SAN)