Storage Media Capacity

What is the typical capacity range of a hard drive?

• The typical capacity range of a hard drive is between 250GB to 14TB for consumer-grade drives, and up to 100TB for enterprise-grade drives.

• The typical capacity range of a hard drive is between 500GB to 20TB for consumer-grade drives, and up to 150TB for enterprise-grade drives.

• The typical capacity range of a hard drive is between 100GB to 10TB for consumer-grade drives, and up to 200TB for enterprise-grade drives.

• The typical capacity range of a hard drive is between 50GB to 5TB for consumer-grade drives, and up to 50TB for enterprise-grade drives.

What does the term "Kilobyte" refer to in words?

• Million bytes

• Thousand bytes

• Billion bytes

• Trillion bytes

What is the storage capacity of 1 Kilobyte (KB) in bytes?

• 1,000 bytes

• 1,024 bytes

• 10,000 bytes

• 1,048,576 bytes

Explain the difference between hard drive capacity and solid state drive capacity.

• Hard drive capacity is typically larger and cheaper than solid state drive capacity, but solid state drives are faster and more durable.

• Hard drive capacity and solid state drive capacity are the same

• Solid state drives are typically larger and cheaper than hard drive capacity

• Hard drive capacity is slower and less durable than solid state drive capacity

How many bytes are in 1 Gigabyte (GB)?

• 1,000,000 bytes

• 1,024 MB

• 1,000,000,000 bytes

• 1,048,576 bytes

What are the common units of storage used to measure capacity?

• Seconds, minutes, hours

• Liters, milliliters, gallons

• Inches, feet, yards

• The common units of storage used to measure capacity are bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, and exabytes.

Which of the following is equivalent to 1 Megabyte (MB)?

• 1,024 bytes

• 1,000,000 bytes

• 1,048,576 bytes

• 1,000 byte

Lisa needs a fast, durable storage device without moving parts. Which option is best?

• Blu-ray Disc

• Memory Stick

• DVD

• Magnetic Tape

Convert 500 megabytes to kilobytes.

• 500 megabytes = 5000000 kilobytes

• 500 megabytes = 512000 kilobytes

• 500 megabytes = 5000 kilobytes

• 500 megabytes = 500 kilobytes

What is the storage capacity of 1 Terabyte (TB)?

• 1,024 Gigabytes

• 1,000 Megabytes

• 1,000,000 bytes

• 1,048,576 bytes