Sony and Philips originally developed compact disc (CD) technology for storing and distributing music in the ____ format.

Many computer system designers rely on ____ to implement disk caching.

Until the 1990s, scaling up was almost always a more cost-effective strategy to increase available computer power because communication between computers was extremely slow compared with communication between a single computer’s components.

Many computer system designers rely on ____ to implement disk caching.

The write operation for recordable discs is destructive, so recordable disc formats can be written only one time.

Serial access time depends on the current position of the read/write mechanism and the position of the target data item in the storage medium.

Disk caching is common in modern computer systems, particularly in file and database servers.

Magnetic and optical storage are currently direct competitors.

A(n) ____________________ bus, such as a Universal serial Bus, connects one or more external devices to the system bus.

People routinely download megabytes or gigabytes of data via the Internet and store gigabytes of data on handheld devices, terabytes on desktop computers, and petabytes to exabytes in corporate and government data centers.