Storage Devices 220-701

1.1 Catagorize storage devices and backup media: FDD - HDD - SSD vs magnetic - Optical drives - Removable storage

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FDD
Floppy Disk Drive
3.5" (90mm) disk, with 1.44 Megabytes (mb)
Floppy Disk
Answer
3.5 Floppy Disk
Answer
5.25" (133mm) & 8" (200mm) floppy disks
Magnetic Storage medium
Form of non-volatile memory, floppy disks, recording tape, strips on credit/debit cards
Disk drive
A device implementing such a storage mechanism with fixed or removable media
Track
  • The concentric circles of recorded data on a single recording surface of a platter.
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    Sector
  • The smallest unit accessed on a disk, a segment of a track, 512 bytes, "cluster" different sizes of sectors
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    HDD
    Hard Disk Drive, is a non-volatile data storage device, magnetic recording
    SATA Drive
    Serial-Advanced Technology Attachment, most common, up to one meter, high speed interface for hard drives
    PATA Drive
    Parallel-ATA is the original ATA (interface for hard drives) renamed after SATA was developed, max 18"
    Solid State Drive (SDD)
    is a data storage device that uses "solid-state" memory, no moving parts, fast & costly, less space
    ATA
    Advanced Technology Attachment
    Identify Hard Drive parts
    Platter (magnetic), Spindle, Actuator, Arm, Head
    Cylinder
    ...is a division of data in a disk drive, concept is concentric, hollow, cylindrical slices through the physical disks (platters)