Input/Output/Storage

Question 1

Optical disk

storage device

Answer 1

A device for reading and writing to optical disks using lasers

Question 2

Optical

medium

Answer 2

Storage media that hold content in digital form using microscopic pits/patterns that are written and read by a laser e.g. CDs

Question 3

Magnetic

storage

Answer 3

Is backing store in which magnetised, flat circular rotating plates or tapes, are used for storing digital data.

Question 4

Magnetic

medium

Answer 4

The magnetically coated material e.g. disks or tapes

Question 5

Solid state

Answer 5

Non-volatile storage device consisting of an array of semiconductors that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory.

Question 6

Solid state

medium

Answer 6

Non-volatile an array of semiconductors.

Question 7

Fragmentation

Answer 7

Related data is split and stored on different parts of the disk

Question 8

Defragmentation

Answer 8

Process of physically moving together elements from the same file in order to improve performance in terms of access read and write speeds on a magnetic
HDD.