Media Storage

What type of storage medium is a hard drive?

• Paper
• Optical
• Solid State
• Magnetic

Which of the following is not an advantage of a solid state drive?

• Cheaper than hard drives
• Storage capacity
• Robust
• Portable

What type of storage media is normally used in a PC?

• Optical Disk (CD, DVD, Blu Ray)

• Hard disk drive

• USB

• Memory cards

Which device would you use:

To store relatively large amounts of data in your home computer

• Optical Disk

• Hard Drive

• USB

• Memory card

What is an advantage of using cloud storage?

• If you have no internet connection, you have no access to your data.

• Can be expensive to set up.

• Security concerns.

• You can access your documents anywhere

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• Optical Disk (CD, DVD, Blu Ray)

• HDD

• USB

• Memory card

Which, out of these, has the highest capacity to store data?

• Optical Disk (CD, DVD, Blu Ray)

• HDD

• USB

• Memory card

One example of good computing practice

• Deleting cache and cookies regularly

• Formatting storage devices regularly

• Set up automatic schedule for backing up files regularly

• Stored backups data in the same storage to main storage

What type of storage media is described by “no moving parts”?

• Magnetic

• Cloud

• Solid state

• Optical

Optical drives use lasers to write and read data.

• True

• False