WorksheetsMagnetic hard disk drive vs SSD
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is the meaning of the acronym HDD
Hardware Disk Drive
Hard Disc Drive
Hard Disk Drive
Hardware Disk Driver
Part of the HDD that causes the disks to rotate
Platter
Spindle
Actuator
Head
It moves around the head arms on the disk surface during read and writing operations
Platter
Spindle
Actuator
Head
What is the meaning of the acronym SSD
Solid Station Drive
Solid State Drive
Solidify State Drive
Solid State Driver
Which of the following devices does not use flash memory to store data?
Pen drive
External Hard drive
Memory Card
SSD
Below is not an advantage of optical disks.
Very cheap
easily portable
higher capacity than hard drives
None of the above
Select the device that uses laser to read and write data.
Magnetic tape
Pen drive
Memory stick
Blu-ray
The following is not an advantage of a magnetic tape.
High storage capacity
Ideal for backup and archive
Data can be easily retrieved
Robust
On which of the following can data be written, erased and re-recorded.
CD-ROM
CD-R
CD-RW
None of the above
Which of the device below is not a magnetic storage device?
Hard disk drive
Magnetic tape
External hard drive
Pen drive
The best storage device for a student to use to save their work in school so as to be able to continue at home is:
Pen drive
CD-R
Magnetic tape
SSD
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of solid state drives?
fast access speeds
small, light and portable
work quietly
cheaper than hard drives
SSD has the following features (tick 2):
lightweight
moving parts
very cheap
expensive
A video camera is attached to a drone. What kind of secondary storage should be on the drone to store the video? Type HDD or SSD.
(a)
SSDs are generally faster at reading and writing data than HDDs.
True
False
Don't know
What type of memory do SSDs have?
Read only
Random
Flash
Fast
SSDs are larger in physical size than HDDs
True
False
SSDs are durable. This means they are able to...
withstand damage
break easily
store more data
be cheaper to buy
Having an internal SSD will make your computer ran faster as opposed to having an internal HDD
True
False
Don't know
Where would you rate your knowledge of SSDs?
Very well
Quite well
Not very well
Not all all
HDD is on the picture
True
False
What on the picture?
HDD
SSD
Memory stick
DVD drive
Laser light is used to read data on optical drives
True
False
What is not advantage of SSD over HDD
They are more reliable
They are cheaper
Data access is considerably faster on HDD
They are more thin
What is advantage of HDD
They have very fast data transfer
They have very large memory capacities
They have fast access times
all of the above
A set of concentric circles where data is stored on a disk.
tracks
sectors
clusters
cylinders
Which of these is a flash drive?
What am I?
ROM (Read Only Memory)
RAM (Random Access Memory)
HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
SSD (Solid State Drive)
What am I?
ROM (Read Only Memory)
RAM (Random Access Memory)
HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
SSD (Solid State Drive)
Which memory is volatile?
Which memory does a computer need to start?
ROM
RAM
HDD
SSD
Which storage is easily broken
Which is the most expensive memory?
What does ROM stand for?
Read Over Memory
Read Onto Memory
Read Only Memory
Read Own Memory
