Short answer questions.  

ALL UNITED STATES COMPUTER RELATED. No PLAGERISIM OR USE OF FOREIGN citing or references. america only. 

 

Do not cite or list references, no cover page just answer these questions correctly as an american college student would.

 

Answer these quickly. Due in 1 hour 15 mins

 

1. Define storage.
2. Describe the difference between a storage device and storage media.
3. Describe the difference between memory (RAM) and what we are calling storage media.
4. Compare the capacity, access time, transfer rate, and expected life span of the following storage media: hard drive (SATA and PATA), USB thumb (flash) drive, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM.
5. Explain how data is stored and located on a hard drive.
6. Research and describe the RAID 0 and the RAID 1 configurations.
7. Research and compare the following hard disk controller methods: PATA (EIDE), SATA, SCSI, and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI).
8. Compare some of the other storage media (SSD and memory cards) and their uses/advantages.
9. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of using cloud storage.
10. Explain how data (not music/video/graphics) is stored and located on optical media (CD, DVD, and Blu-ray).
11. Describe and compare the various backup plans available.
12. Describe the Enterprise storage solutions most often used.
13. Describe the use of other storage types and where they might be used.