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Units of Storage
Storage Methods
Access Methods
Categories of Storage
Storage Media
100
The smallest unit of storage in the computer.
What is a bit?
100
Hard disks and floppy disks store data this way.
What is magnetically?
100
The two major types of data access methods.
What are direct and serial?
100
RAM and ROM together.
What is primary storage?
100
Holds data temporarily during processing.
What is RAM?
200
The amount of storage space required to store one character.
What is a byte?
200
CDs and DVDs use this technology to store data.
What is laser technology?
200
All disk storage supports this type of access to data.
What is direct access?
200
Also called backing store.
What is secondary storage?
200
Holds the instructions and data used to boot up the computer.
What is ROM?
300
Approximately 1000 gigabytes.
What is a terabyte?
300
Flash drives store data in this way.
What is electrically?
300
All tape storage supports this type of access to data.
What is serial access?
300
Immediate access store.
What is RAM?
300
CD, floppy disk, hard disk. One of these stores more data than the other two.
What is hard disk?
400
1024 kilobytes.
What is a megabyte?
400
CDs and DVDs are also called...
What are optical disks?
400
This type of access makes it difficult to update data on the storage medium.
What is serial access?
400
Data here is directly accessible to the CPU.
What is primary storage?
400
This type of ROM can be erased and re-programmed several times after manufacture.
What is EPROM?
500
The amount of bits the computer can process in one operation.
What is a word?
500
Flash drives are made using this technology.
What is EEPROM technology?
500
Hard disk and magnetic tape. Data can be accessed faster on one of these.
What is hard disk?
500
Used to store data for later use and for backups.
What is secondary storage?
500
EEPROM
What is Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory?