COMPUTER STORAGE

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Across
  1. 1. What basic unit represents a single binary digit?
  2. 6. What does the letter "S" stand for in SRAM?
  3. 9. Scientists explore physics at what atomic level for futuristic storage?
  4. 10. Solid-state drives trap or remove what type of charge to store data?
  5. 13. What component acts as the computer's central brain?
  6. 14. What shape is the spinning component in magnetic hard drives?
  7. 16. What term describes the time it takes to access data in memory?
  8. 20. What process is periodically required for DRAM to retain data?
  9. 21. What number system uses digits 0 and 1 to represent data?
  10. 23. What light-sensitive chemical layer degrades over time in optical media?
  11. 24. What type of fast RAM is cache memory made from?
  12. 25. Besides a transistor, what component stores electrical charge in DRAM?
  13. 30. How many distinct states can a standard memory cell switch between?
  14. 31. What happens to magnetic hard drives over time when exposed to heat?
  15. 32. What environmental factor accelerates hardware degradation?
  16. 33. What instrument reads the encoded spots on optical discs?
Down
  1. 2. What goal remains out of reach for both humans and computers alike?
  2. 3. Repeatedly doing what to floating-gate transistors eventually corrodes them?
  3. 4. What mechanical motion must a magnetic disc perform in order to locate data to read?
  4. 5. Which type of long-term storage media is overall the cheapest?
  5. 7. What fundamental physical property allows floating-gate transistors in solid-state drives to trap electrical charges?
  6. 8. Flash memory relies on what specific type of transistor?
  7. 11. Most current storage media have a maximum life expectancy under how many years?
  8. 12. What disc format alongside DVDs uses optical light encoding?
  9. 15. What fast storage drive contains no moving mechanical parts?
  10. 17. What small, high-speed memory resides closest to the CPU?
  11. 18. What unit of time measurement equals 100 billionths of a second in relation to DRAM latency?
  12. 19. What does the letter "D" stand for in DRAM?
  13. 22. What short-term memory component allocates space when you run a program?
  14. 26. What must be supplied for RAM and cache to maintain data?
  15. 27. Besides zero, what other numerical value can a memory cell store?
  16. 28. What type of memory handles immediate tasks?
  17. 29. How many interlocked transistors typically make up an SRAM cell?