Storage Devices

What is a storage device?

• Hardware that manipulates information to produce new results

• Software that tells the hardware what to do

• Hardware that is used to store data, whether temporarily or permanently

What are the types of storage devices? (Select all that apply)

• Primary

• Off-On

• New

• Secondary

Primary storage is referred to as ...

• Memory

• CDs

• DVDs

• Mainframe

Select all the primary storage devices

• RAM

• ROM

• Hard Disk

• Memory Card

ROM is non-volatile memory

• True

• False

RAM is volatile memory

• True

• False

Volatile memory loses data when it loses access to power

• True

• False

RAM stores instructions while the program is being executed

• True

• False

ROM does not store the instructions that are needed to boot up the computer

• True

• False

Secondary Storage stores the data and programs that are not currently being used but will be used in the future

• True

• False