Storage Devices & Media Revision Questions

1. Joanna has a number of text files, music files, and video files stored on the hard disk
drive of her computer. She wants to transfer these files onto removable storage media.
She can use CDs, DVDs or floppy disks.

(a) Draw a line to link each medium to its storage capacity.

Medium Storage capacity

CD 1.44 Mb

DVD 650 Mb

Floppy disk 4.7 Gb

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(b) Give two reasons for transferring the files onto these removable storage media.

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2. (a) Tick one box in each row to show which storage medium is most suitable
for each of the tasks shown.

CD-ROM Hard disk Magnetic tape

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Selling computer games.

Storing files on a network.

Backing up files on a
network.

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(b) Give two reasons why floppy disks are not often used for data storage.

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3. (a) Tick ( ) one box in each row that best describes the storage media
shown below.

Has the Portable but Portable Suitable for

fastest has a small with a large recording
access storage storage very large
time capacity capacity video files

RAM

CD-ROM

Floppy disk

120 GByte hard disk

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(b) Tick ( ) one box in each row that best describes each hardware device shown
below.

Input Output
Both
device device

Bar-code reader

Touch screen

Motor

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4. At the end of each day, a company makes a backup of all its data. What is a backup?

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5. Underline two storage devices.

CD writer zip drive printer

tracker ball touch screen joystick

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6. A school buys a CD-ROM for Geography.

Tick whether these statements are TRUE or FALSE:

TRUE FALSE

The CD-ROM can have a virus on it.

The data on the CD-ROM can be changed.

The CD-ROM may contain a video.

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7. CD-ROM, floppy disk and hard disk drives are some of the storage devices used with
computer systems.

State two other types of storage device.

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8. Here are some descriptions of different types of storage media.

For each description, tick ( ) one box for the storage medium being described.

Description RAM Floppy Disk CD-ROM

Data cannot be rewritten to it.

It has the fastest access time.

It is removable and has the smallest

storage capacity.

It loses its stored data when the

power is switched off.

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9. Most games software is now sold on CD-ROM rather than floppy disks.

Give three reasons why.

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10. An archive contains thousands of paper documents. These documents are going to
be scanned for electronic storage. The documents could be stored on CD-Rs or a
hard disk.

(a) Give one advantage of CD-Rs.

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(b) Give one advantage of hard disks.

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11. John is doing his GCSE coursework on the school network. He would like to continue
this work on his computer at home.

Discuss ways he could arrange to do this.

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12. A school must ensure that the data it keeps on staff and pupils is not lost. The school
has to decide on a suitable storage medium for taking and keeping backups.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different media available that the school
could use for its backups.

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13. Wordsworth Dental Practice needs a method of transferring files between computers
that are not on the network.

Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the following storage devices for this purpose:

● Flash memory/memory stick

● DVD

● CD

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