Image quality improves as pixel size increases.

Electrical current can generate a magnetic field but a magnetic field cannot generate electricity.

​In a magneto-optical drive, the laser polarity shift used in reading is known as the “____________________ effect.”

A ____ is a mathematical compression technique implemented as a program.

Modern SSDs use a technique called “____” to spread write operations around the storage medium, thus evening out the impact of destructive writes and extending the storage device’s useful life.

The latest trend in high-performance CPU design embeds multiple CPUs and cache memory on a single chip—an approach called ____.

Magnetic disk drives have an advantage over SSDs in power consumption.

If a buffer isn’t large enough to hold and entire unit of data transfer, an error called a ____ occurs.

____ is a cost-effective approach to computer system design when a single computer runs many different application programs or services.

Magnetic disk media are flat, circular ____________________ with metallic coatings that are rotated beneath read/write heads.