Secondary Storage

You can purchase a USB flash drive which can store 2PB of data.

• true
• FALSE

USB flash drives use solid state memory.

• true
• FALSE

Solid state hard drives are more suitable than magnetic hard drives for portable devices.

• true
• FALSE

CDs store more data than floppy drives.

• true
• FALSE

A CD-ROM is re-writable.

• true
• FALSE

Solid state hard drives have moving parts.

• true
• FALSE

The term capacity refers to

• how shiny the device is
• the amount of data you can store on the device
• how easily you can damage the device
• the speed of the device

The term durability refers to

• the speed of the device
• the amount of data you can store on the device
• how easily you can damage the device
• how shiny the device is

The term portability refers to

• how easy it is to carry around/transport the device
• the speed of the device
• the amount of data you can store on the device
• how shiny the device is

Which one of these is commonly used to measure storage capacity

• the number of text documents you can store on it
• bytes
• hertz
• Mb/s