Understanding Hard Disk Drives (HDDs)

a) They are faster than SSDs

b) They are less susceptible to physical damage

c) They have moving parts

d) They are less expensive than SSDs

a) Hard Disk Drive

b) High Definition Display

c) Hot Dog Deluxe

d) Heavy Duty Data

a) Spinning platter

b) Actuator arm

c) Read/write head

d) Circuit board

a) Size of the platters

b) Speed of rotation

c) Number of read/write heads

d) All of the above

a) SATA (Serial ATA)

b) USB (Universal Serial Bus)

c) HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)

d) PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)

a) It spins the platters

b) It holds the read/write heads

c) It powers the HDD

d) It transfers data to the CPU

a) On flash memory chips

b) Using spinning magnetic disks

c) By compressing data into small packets

d) Through optical lasers

the logical computing for the motherboard

a type of memory that holds information for the SDD

a device that has flash memory

a type of non-volatile storage that retains stored data even when powered off