Bits, Bytes & Bunk
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100
This writes data to a magnetic hard drive.
What is the read / write head?
100
A type of low energy storage method that uses tiny gates to store ones and zeroes.
What is solid state storage?
100
This type of media is stamped at the factory and is the oldest type of optical storage.
What is a CD-ROM disc?
100
When a processor has two of these it is called.
What is dual core.
100
How many bits a processor can process at once
What is word size?
200
These are higher capacity drives that also use more energy.
What is magnetic hard drive.
200
The ability of a device to jump directly to the requested data.
What is random access?
200
This type of solid state storage uses a USB to connect to a computer.
What is a flash drive?
200
When one word must be processed before the next word can begin processing.
What is serial processing?
200
8 bits equal this
What is a byte?
300
What are three examples of solid state storage.
What is memory card, USB drive, and solid state storage hard drives.
300
When a storage device must read through the data from the beginning to get to the data it is trying to access.
What is sequential access?
300
This type of storage uses lasers to read spots on a disc.
What is optical storage?
300
When one word does not have to be finished before the next word can start.
What is pipeline processing?
300
A binary digit is called this.
What is a bit?
400
The amount of data on a storage device that can move per second from the storage medium to the computer.
What is data transfer rate?
400
The average time it takes a computer to locate data on the storage medium and read it.
What is access time?
400
These are the dark and light spots on a CD-ROM or CD-R disc.
What are pits and lands?
400
The type of parallel processing created by Intel which simulates more than one processor.
What is hyperthreading?
400
When 64 bits go through the microprocessor at one time.
What is 64 bit word size?
500
This newer type of optical storage can only be read in a special high capacity drive and is usually used for watching movies.
What is Blu Ray Disc?
500
The Amount of data that can be stored in a given area of a storage medium, such as the surface of a disc.
What is storage density?
500
This device uses magnetic particles spread over the disc that are organized by a read/ write head.
What is a magnetic hard drive?
500
When you have four Intel processors that are processing two parallel lines at the same time it is called this.
What is quad core processing with 2 threads.
500
A computer processes this.
What is data?
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