Studied by 4 people
bit
fundamental unit
byte
unit of digital information
booting
starting by loading an operating system
electronic storage
device for recording information
fire wire
high performance serial bus
interface
the point of interaction or communication
laser
emits light
magnetic platter
thin, high precision disk
magnetic module
narrow printed circuit board
magnetic storage media
storage medium
operating system
set of programs
optical storage media
written and read with a laser
rom
basic instructions for booting the computer
ram
temporary storage
storage drives
read or write informationon magnetic or optical storage media
floppy disk drive
permanent storage for data
hard disk drive
is installed inside the computer
optical drive
uses lasers to read data on the optical media
external flash drive
removable storage device/thumb drive
ide
early drive controller
sata
serial version of the ata drive controller
scsi
drive controller that can connect up to 15 drives
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