I Vocabulary focus. Study
the words and word combinations,
practise their translation, spelling. Check your
knowledge in the test. Play vocabulary game and set your
own vocabulary game record.
II Watch the video and fill in the gaps with the words from the list. There are several words you don’t need
to use.
thicker; sticks;
fragmented; store; cameras; storage; USB; format; portable; equipment; unplug;
pictures; durable; plug into; computer; flash; expensive; fast; remove; disc;
formatted; photography
We’ve also got other types of 1)_____
inside our computers that we can 2)_____
from the computer and take with us. We see 3)_____
memory very commonly used for this. These are different kinds of flash memory.
These are the memory 4)_____ or
memory keys you may be accustomed to seeing that just 5)_____ a USB connection.
They might have 8 gig or 4 gig, or 16 gig or 32 gig. Because it is flash memory
it gets relatively 6)_____ when you
get up to larger amounts, but it’s a good way to 7)_____. A gig that’s a lot, and that’s a pretty inexpensive way to
plug in a key, store some files on there, pull it out, take it to another 8)_____ or take it with you. We also
have these other kinds of flash storage: SD. These types of storage are used a
lot in 9)_____, they aren’t very 10)_____ in the way that they operate,
they’re good for storing 11)_____,
sometimes good for storing video as well. It’s a very small 12)_____, so it really applies very
easily to 13)_____ technologies like
cameras and like audio because you’re able to fit a whole lot of data into a
very small amount of space. If you’ve ever worked on some older 14)_____, you may see something like a
compact flash card. This is what you might see there, this is a 16 gig compact
flash card, it’s a little bit bigger format. It’s a little bit more 15)_____ format too because it is bigger
and it is 16)_____, but we’re
starting to see the use of compact flash give way to perhaps some of these
easier to use, these smaller types of formats such as the SD flash memory.
III Watch the video. Choose the correct option to complete
the sentences.
We didn’t use to think about hard drives as removable/reportable/replaceable
storage devices, but these days they certainly are. These are good examples of external
hard drives, here’s one that’s an all-for-one/all-in-one/all-for-nothing:
it’s got a case and inside that case is a hard drive but it’s got different formats/formatted/forms
on it. I can plug in a USB or an external PATA/SCSI/SATA connection into that
particular drive. Here’s one that is a simple into face/ interface/face
that connects to my computer, but you simply take an existing hard drive and
just slam it in on top there. Now I can use that as external drive. When I want
to use more story/strange/storage, I would remove that drive and then just
put another one right in place. So it
makes it a very modular/modeled/popular, very easy for me to go the store, buy
new hard drive, then just plug it into this stand-by/move-along/stand-alone
interface that I can now use to access that particular drive. It makes it very
easy to swap/switching/flop in huge amounts of data that way as well.
If you work in a corporal/popular/corporate environment, you’re
probably storing a lot of data, having hard drives to do that probably isn’t fanatically/financially/practically
practical. The way that most people do that these days is with tape drives. You
take magnetic tape, you stick into a mash-in/machine/pushing and you take
all of the data from your computer system that’s on your hard drive and you
simply floppy/copied/copy it to the magnetic tape. It’s copied digitally/literally/dietary
and usually it’s copied with encryption as well. That way, if somebody gets
their hands on this magnetic tape later, they wouldn’t be able to get any of
your data off it. Usually these are in formats like this, where I can have multiply/imply/multiple
tape drives in there simultaneously. In large environments, these very large
environments, very large storage areas/arenas/scenes, we might have six/sixty/sixteen
or thirty two or even more tape drives all running at one time so that you can
take huge amounts of data, back them up denied/ overweight/overnight, and send
them off site. That way, if something was to happen in your stability/facility/vicinity,
you’ve still got a way to restore all of your data later on and you haven’t
lost any of that imported/exported/important information.
IV
Watch the video. Fill in the blanks in the sentences.
Let’s see what we’ve learned from this 1)____ on
storage devices. Here’s a 2)____ for you: “Which optical storage format can
store up to eight point five gigabytes of information?” Do you recall which one
dealt with that sort of size? It was a DVD, digital 3)____ disc; really it can
store 8.5 gig. Obviously, I can do even more than that in my 4)____ as well. So
I’ll give you 5)____ if you answered with either one of those. Another
question: “Which drive technology uses 6)____ to store data instead of 7)____
platters?” We’re so used to magnetic platters with our hard drives. What type
uses memory? Well, that would be the 8)____
state drive or the SSD. And, lastly: “What type of 9)____ are most commonly
used to connect to 10)____ hard drives?” We very often see different interfaces
on hard drives, but there’s one that really we almost always see connecting our
external hard drives together and that is usually USB, external SATA or even
Firewire on some of these interfaces as well. So that’s one of the ways that we
can 11)____ up. And, if you answered any of those, you’re probably going to
find a hard drive out there that’s got some of those formats on there, very
easy to find those pieces.
V
Watch all the parts of the video. Mark
the following statements as True or False. Correct the false statements.
1.
Flash memory is
a type of removable storage device.
2.
Flash key can
hold from 8 to 32 GB.
3.
Flash memory is
relatively inexpensive.
4.
Today SD flash
memory is less popular than compact flash.
5.
External hard
drives are not a type of removable storage devices.
6.
With magnetic
tape you can copy all of the data from your computer system to the magnetic
tape.
7.
Copies on
magnetic tapes are not encrypted.
8.
Only two tape
drives can work simultaneously.
1.
What types of
flash memory-based devices do you know? What is their storage capacity?
2.
What flash
drives are widely used today? Which are better for music, video? Which are
better for data and image storage?
3.
What are
external hard drives like? How can we use them?
4.
How can magnetic
tape drives be used by the companies? What are the advantages of magnetic tape
storage?
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