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Magnetic hard disk drive vs SSD

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the meaning of the acronym HDD

a)

Hardware Disk Drive

b)

Hard Disc Drive

c)

Hard Disk Drive

d)

Hardware Disk Driver

2.

Part of the HDD that causes the disks to rotate

a)

Platter

b)

Spindle

c)

Actuator

d)

Head

3.

It moves around the head arms on the disk surface during read and writing operations

a)

Platter

b)

Spindle

c)

Actuator

d)

Head

4.

What is the meaning of the acronym SSD

a)

Solid Station Drive

b)

Solid State Drive

c)

Solidify State Drive

d)

Solid State Driver

5.

Which of the following devices does not use flash memory to store data?

a)

Pen drive

b)

External Hard drive

c)

Memory Card

d)

SSD

6.

Below is not an advantage of optical disks.

a)

Very cheap

b)

easily portable

c)

higher capacity than hard drives

d)

None of the above

7.

Select the device that uses laser to read and write data.

a)

Magnetic tape

b)

Pen drive

c)

Memory stick

d)

Blu-ray

8.

The following is not an advantage of a magnetic tape.

a)

High storage capacity

b)

Ideal for backup and archive

c)

Data can be easily retrieved

d)

Robust

9.

On which of the following can data be written, erased and re-recorded.

a)

CD-ROM

b)

CD-R

c)

CD-RW

d)

None of the above

10.

Which of the device below is not a magnetic storage device?

a)

Hard disk drive

b)

Magnetic tape

c)

External hard drive

d)

Pen drive

11.

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:

a)

Pen drive

b)

CD-R

c)

Magnetic tape

d)

SSD

12.

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of solid state drives?

a)

fast access speeds

b)

small, light and portable

c)

work quietly

d)

cheaper than hard drives

13.

SSD has the following features (tick 2):

a)

lightweight

b)

moving parts

c)

very cheap

d)

expensive

14.

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)  

15.

SSDs are generally faster at reading and writing data than HDDs.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Don't know

16.

What type of memory do SSDs have?

a)

Read only

b)

Random

c)

Flash

d)

Fast

17.

SSDs are larger in physical size than HDDs

a)

True

b)

False

18.

SSDs are durable. This means they are able to...

a)

withstand damage

b)

break easily

c)

store more data

d)

be cheaper to buy

19.

Having an internal SSD will make your computer ran faster as opposed to having an internal HDD

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Don't know

20.

Where would you rate your knowledge of SSDs?

a)

Very well

b)

Quite well

c)

Not very well

d)

Not all all

21.

HDD is on the picture

a)

True

b)

False

22.

What on the picture?

a)

HDD

b)

SSD

c)

Memory stick

d)

DVD drive

23.

Laser light is used to read data on optical drives

a)

True

b)

False

24.

What is not advantage of SSD over HDD

a)

They are more reliable

b)

They are cheaper

c)

Data access is considerably faster on HDD

d)

They are more thin

25.

What is advantage of HDD

a)

They have very fast data transfer

b)

They have very large memory capacities

c)

They have fast access times

d)

all of the above

26.

A set of concentric circles where data is stored on a disk.

a)

tracks

b)

sectors

c)

clusters

d)

cylinders

27.

Which of these is a flash drive?

a)
b)
c)
d)
28.
Which one of these devices is optical?
a)
CD
b)
SSD
c)
USB flash drive
d)
Magnetic stripe
29.

What am I?

a)

ROM (Read Only Memory)

b)

RAM (Random Access Memory)

c)

HDD (Hard Disk Drive)

d)

SSD (Solid State Drive)

30.

What am I?

a)

ROM (Read Only Memory)

b)

RAM (Random Access Memory)

c)

HDD (Hard Disk Drive)

d)

SSD (Solid State Drive)

31.

Which memory is volatile?

a)
b)
c)
d)
32.

Which memory does a computer need to start?

a)

ROM

b)

RAM

c)

HDD

d)

SSD

33.

Which storage is easily broken

a)
b)
c)
d)
34.

Which is the most expensive memory?

a)
b)
c)
d)
35.

What does ROM stand for?

a)

Read Over Memory

b)

Read Onto Memory

c)

Read Only Memory

d)

Read Own Memory