CSC 225: Computer Hardware

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Module 8 Assignment

This assignment is based on chapter 10.

1. Define sampling rate of a sound card.
2. What is TWAIN?
3. Give an example of a solid state device.
4. What is streaming audio?
5. What can be done with a video capture card?
6. Hard drives may use the FAT or NTFS file system. What file system is used by CD/DVD drives?
7. How does the surface of a CD store data?
8. Describe CD drive speeds. Include the original speed, audio CD speed and what things like 40X and 52X mean.
9. Should a CD drive be set to master or slave if it must share an IDE interface with a hard drive?
10. How much data can a DVD hold?
11. Give two reasons why DVDs hold more data than CDs hold?
12. How can tape drives interface with a PC?
13. Identify the half-life of magnetic and optical media.
14. What is Fault Tolerance?
15. Which RAID provides performance increase, increased volume capacity and fault tolerance?

Know the following terms:

• Basic Disk
• CAV/CLV
• Dynamic Disk
• JPG/JPEG
• Lands
• MPG/MPEG
• Pits
• TIFF

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