Storage Devices

Which of the following is an advantage of Solid State Storage?

• It has spinning disks to read the data

• The storage device is lightweight and silent

• SSDs are very cheap to buy and have lots of storage

Cloud storage is very secure because the host has lots of security procedures in place.

• True

• False

Magnetic storage devices have...

• Spinning discs that contain tracks and sectors

• Floating gates to trap electrons

• A read-write head that moves across the magnetic discs

• Has pits and lands that represent 0 or 1

Cloud storage is...

• actually in the cloud

• storage that can be accessed from anywhere using the internet

• robust because it has no moving parts

• backed up very regularly

'A laser is shone onto the disc and the light is reflected based upon whether it hits a pit or land' describes which storage device?

• Cloud storage

• Optical storage

• Magnetic storage

• Solid State storage

Which of the following describes the functionality of solid state storage?

• Traps electrons behind blocks of floating gates

• Spinning discs are read using a read-write head

• Access is only possible if you have a connection to the internet

• Has a series of pits and lands that reflect light to a sensor

Which of the following storage devices is most suitable for use in mobile devices?

• Cloud

• Magnetic

• Solid State

• Optical

Which of the following is most commonly found in PCs?

• Solid State Storage

• Magnetic Storage

• Cloud Storage

• Optical Storage

Which of the following specifications would be better in terms of storage capacity speed of access to data?

• PC with Magnetic Storage of 2TB

• PC with SSD drive of 500GB

• Mobile Phone with SSD of 128GB

Choose the most appropriate storage device for an all terrain camera crew tracking lions across Africa...

• Cloud Storage

• Solid State Storage

• Magnetic Storage

• Optical Storage