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The main goal of buffering and caching is to ____.

____ is the time required to read the second of two adjacent sectors on the same track and platter.

As single bits are transferred over the wireless connection, they’re added to the buffer in ____________________ order.

The phrase ____ describes approaches to increasing processing and other computer system power by using larger and more powerful computers.

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

____________________ compression is required in many applications, such as accounting records, executable programs, and most stored documents.

The term ____ describes the ratio of data size in bits or bytes before and after compression.

The CPU communicates with a peripheral device by moving data to or from an I/O port’s dedicated bus.

Devices with low data transfer demand can use a single PCI bus lane, and devices with higher requirements can increase their available data transfer rate by using additional lanes.

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