All About Hard Drives
This type of hard drive stores non-volatile data as a result of the data being stored on magnets.
What is an HDD?
This source of electricity provides power to the hard drive
What is a Power Supply Unit?
This company introduced the worlds first hard drive
What is IBM?
The production of hard drives requires a lot of this
What is energy?
This type of hard drive utilizes flash-memory technology.
What is an SSD?
Data is copied to this component before being transferred to the hard drive
What is RAM?
The first HDD hard drive was the size of 2 of what kitchen appliance?
What is a fridge?
Lots of e-waste from hard drives ends up here
What are landfills?
This part of a hard drive controls the electronics and allows the drive to communicate with the computer.
What is a PCB?
This component connects the hard drive to other computer parts
What is a motherboard?
This company released the first consumer flash drive
What is SanDisk?
This data destruction method ses software to overwrite the existing data on a hard drive
What is data wiping?
These parts of a hard drive are spinning disks where data is stored magnetically.
What are platters?
This part of an SSD acts as the brain
What is a controller?
What is 2001?
Physically shredding old hard drives destroys this
This part of a hard drive moves over the platters to read and write data.
What are Read/Write Heads?
An SSD works by using a flash drive instead which has tiny microchips called this
What is NAND Flash Memory?
This protocol shifted SSDs from old SATA connections to NVMe
What is the NVMe Protocol Revolution?
Computer scientists and engineers can optimize storage in terms of density using this technology
What is Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR)?