Exam 9: Hard Drive Technologies

Which version of SATA ties capable drives directly into the PCI Express bus on motherboards?

How many tiny read/write heads service each platter in a traditional hard disk drive (HDD)?

SSDs can install as add-on _______________ cards.

What options are generally available if you do not see a label on the drive that tells you how to set the jumpers?

In technical terms, _______________ technology and devices are based on the combination of semiconductors and transistors used to create electrical components with no moving parts.

Which term specifies a type of nonvolatile flash memory that current SSD devices use to retain data when power is turned off or disconnected?

What is disk striping without parity?

Which unit measures hard drive spindle speed?

RAID that distributes data and parity information evenly across all the drives is known as _______________.

What is the maximum eSATA device cable length?

Describe the advantages of using disk duplexing over disk mirroring.

What is S.M.A.R.T.?

The _______________ specification supports a communication connection between the operating system and the SSD directly through a PCIe bus lane, reducing latency and taking full advantage of the wicked-fast speeds of high-end SSDs.

_______________ is the ability to replace a bad drive without disturbing the operating system.

What is the maximum PATA device cable length?

What is the best friend a tech has when it comes to troubleshooting hard drive?installation?

What is disk mirroring?

What is the function of the cable select jumper setting?

Faster drives mean better system performance, but they can also cause the computer to_______________.

Software RAID means the _______________ is in charge of all the RAID functions.