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Some Manufacturers market there___interfaces as Fast ATA or Ultra ATA
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Traditionlly, hard disks stored data using ___ recording, which aligned the magnetic particles horizontally arounfd the surface of the disk.
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___ uses serial signals to transfer data, instructions, and information
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Flash memory cards are a type of ___ media, which means they consist of entirely of electronic components and contain no moving parts.
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examples of ____ are hard disks, solid state drives, memory cars, USB flash drives, ExpressCard modules, optical disks, smart cards, and microfilm.
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the hard disk that is sometimes mounted inside the system unit is sometimes called a___ disk.
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A disks storage locations consist of pie shaped sections, which break the tracks into small arcs called___
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| ____________ time measures the amount of time it takes to locate an item on a storage medium. |
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The process of transfering data, instructions, and information from a storage medium into memory.
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To start up, a computer locates an operating system in storage an loads it into _______
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The process of writting on an optical disk is called _______
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The ________ is a hard disk interface that can support up to eight or fifteen peripheral devices.
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On a hard disk, a _______ is a vertical section of track that passes through all platters on a hard disk.
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A ______ on a hard disk is made of aluminum, glass, or ceramic and is coated with an alloy matrial that allows items to be recorded magnetically on its surface.
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The primary advantage of the _______ interface is the cables are thinner, longer, more flexible, and less susceptible to interference.
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With respect to a storage medium, the term _______ means users can remove the medium from one computer and carry it to another computer.
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A ____________ is the smallest unit of disk space that stores data and information.
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A _______ is a narrow recording band that forms a full circle on the surface of the disk.
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__________ Access means that a device can locate a particular data item or file immediately, without having to move consecutively through items stored in front of the desired item or file.
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__________ is the process of transferring data, instructions, and information from memory to a storage medium.
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The process of copying audio and/or video data from a purchased disk and saving it on a digital media is called_________.
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Contains at least one hard disk on most desktop computers.
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Kind of interface that has transfer rates up to 640MBps.
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Enclosed in a air tight, sealed case to protect it from contamination.
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Kind of storage that is an internet service providing storage to computer users.
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Describes a storage medium in which items are held only temporarily.
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The operating system marks bad ones as unusable when a disk is formatted.
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Its reliability tends to deminish with each successive rewrite.
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Also called a thumb drive.
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A hard disk that uses parallel signals to transfer data, instructions, and information.
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Another name for random access.
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The number of bytes a storage medium can hold.
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A newer type of SCSI that uses erial signals to transfer data, instructions, and information.
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Some printers have slots to read these.
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The number of bits in an area on a storage medium.
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A storage device that typically uses flash memory to store data, instructions, and information.
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A duplicate of a file, program, or disk placed in a seperate storage medium.
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Sometimes used in descriptions of a storage devices capabilities, instead of access time.
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