Storage Types

Question 1

What is Volatile and Non-Volatile Storage? and provide examples.

Answer 1

• Volatile Storage is data that gets saved to RAM temporarily to be used, if a computer is powered off; the contents of data will be erased from Memory.
• Non-Volatile Stoage is data that gets saved to permanent storage devices such as HDD and SSD.
• HDD’s contain magnetic material that spin around quickly inside where a head reads and writes magnetic charges to the platter.
• SSD’s use stored electric charges to store a bit in flash memory cells and contains less moving parts.

Question 2

What is Flash Memory?

Answer 2

Is the same as SSD’s but easily removable and has less capacity for storage than an SSD.

Question 3

What is Optical Storage?

Answer 3

Optical storage is a device that uses lasers to encode data onto a disk such as CD or DVD.

Once considered to be Non-Volatile form of storage

Question 4

What are file servers?

Answer 4

Are computers on a network that provide users with file services and access to files.

Question 5

What is NAS (Network Attached Storage)?

Answer 5

Are attached storages that are self-contained file servers.