Module 5 and 6: Notes

fuse

What is often changed in the power supply when malfunction happens

black wire

the wire in power supply that is for ground

ROM

Storage device that is not permanent but keeps data longer than RAM

Diskette

The disk is thiner than of hard drive; not in the market anymore

1.44 MB

Floppy disk/diskette stores up to ____

Zip

compressed data files to reduce storage

bottom

The ___ part of the optical storage drive is the one being read

darker

The ____ color part of the CD contains the data

CD-ROM

CD that reads data only

CD-R

CD wherein data can be written once and read multiple times

CD-RW

Also called Erasable CD wherein data can be written multiple times

videos/movies, musics

DVD: for ___; CD: for ____

installed

USB flash drives when plugged is not immediately recognized, it needs to be ___ first

cameras

Memory card is mostly used in ___ way back

Cloud storage

This storage device is efficient but poses security and privacy risks

paper clip

Used in the YouTube video to test the power supply

case fan

in the YouTube video, all components are disconnected from the power supply except the ____

green, black

The single ___ wire and ___ wire is bridged by the u-shaped paper clip to test the power supply

Vinyl record

Uses a physical stylus (or needle), which is part of a record player's tone arm, to "read" the sound by tracing the grooves etched into the record's surface.

Casette tape

Used for radios

Videos

Series of still images

Casette tape

Storage device used for radios before

Primary

Internal memory

Secondary

External memory

DVD

Optical storage device that uses red laser

Blu-ray

Optical storage device that uses blue laser

paper

The earliest computer storage device was punched cards made of _____

MicroSD
MiniSD

Two types of SD card: