Some Vocabulary

Question 1

External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (eSATA)

Answer 1

An extension to the SATA standard that enables SATA drives to attach externally.

Question 2

Flash Memory

Answer 2

Electronic non- volatile memory that is easy to erase and reprogram.

Question 3

Hard Disk

Answer 3

A long term storage device, a thick magnetic disk made of several aluminum platters in a protective shell.

Question 4

Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)

Answer 4

An electronic interface that allows communication between a motherboard’s data pathos or bus and a computer’s hard disks.

Question 5

Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD)

Answer 5

A configuration that places multiple disks in a single logical storage unit.

Question 6

Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)

Answer 6

A memory storage device designed to allow access to non-volatile storage media through a PCI express (PCIe) bus.

Question 7

Optical Disc

Answer 7

A storage device that records binary information through pits in a reflectively coated disc.
Optical discs use lasers for reading and writing information.

Question 8

Optical drive

Answer 8

The disc drive that reads and writes data from optical media

Question 9

Optical media

Answer 9

Discs that are easily portable and can store large amounts of data.

Question 10

M.2

Answer 10

A popular solid state drive often used in portable electronics.

Question 11

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)

Answer 11

A disk sub-system that combines multiple physical disks into a single logical storage unit.

Question 12

Serial ATA (SATA)

Answer 12

The latest generation of standards for hard disk and other storage devices.

Question 13

SD card

Answer 13

A flash memory device is often used in digital cameras.

Question 14

Solid state drive

Answer 14

A flash device with a large storage capacity comparable to a hard disk drive’s.

Question 15

Directory

Answer 15

A container in a volume that holds files or other directories.

Question 16

Extended File Allocation Table (ExFAT or FAT32)

Answer 16

A special file system designed to support large flash drives.

Question 17

File

Answer 17

A file is a one-dimensional stream of bits treated as a logical unit.

Question 18

File system

Answer 18

A means for organizing, storing data and information on a storage device.

Question 19

Formatting

Answer 19

The process of preparing a partition to use a specific file system.

Question 20

New Technology File System (NTFS)

Answer 20

Microsoft’s default file system

Question 21

Volume

Answer 21

A single accessible storage area within a file system.

Question 22

Initialize

Answer 22

Prepare a new disk for use.

Question 23

Partition

Answer 23

A section of a hard disk separate from the rest. Partitions allow the OS to manage the information in each section separately.

Question 24

Storage Spaces

Answer 24

helps protect your data from drive failures and extend storage over time as you add drives

by allowing you to group drives into a storage pool and make data backups.

Question 25

Extended Volume

Answer 25

An extended volume has unallocated disk space on the same disk.

Question 26

Mount point

Answer 26

A mount point is an empty folder on an existing volume that points to another partition. Data saved to the folder is physically saved on the referenced partition.

Question 27

Spanned volume

Answer 27

A spanned volume has unallocated disk space on a different disk.

Question 28

Storage Space

Answer 28

A Windows function that allows you to group physical disks into storage pools and create virtual disks from the available capacity.

Question 29

Parity

Answer 29

It uses parity information to reconstruct data if one of the storage devices fails. Usually requires at least three disks.

Question 30

Simple data Provisioning

Answer 30

This option simply adds space from the storage pool to the storage space. When you select the Simple option, all of the data in the storage space is lost if one of the drives fails.

Question 31

Thin provisioning

Answer 31

An option that allows you to allocate larger storage spaces than the disk space available in the pool.

Question 32

Three-way mirror

Answer 32

Requires at least five storage devices. The data is written to three storage devices. This option provides redundancy for the data if two storage devices fail at one time.

Question 33

Two-way mirror

Answer 33

Requires at least two storage devices. The data is written to two devices. Two-way mirror requires twice as much device space as the amount of storage allocated to the storage space. This option protects you from a single storage device failure.

Question 34

Disk Defragmenter

Answer 34

A program that optimizes the performance of your hard drive by joining fragments of files that are in different locations on your hard drive into a single location.

Question 35

System Restore

Answer 35

A Microsoft feature that lets you revert a computer’s state to an earlier period in time.

Question 36

Windows Update

Answer 36

A program that updates your Windows operating system.