Exam 9: Hard Drive Technologies

The Disk Management program in Windows Server versions can configure drives for _______________, and it works with PATA or SATA.

Briefly describe the spindle or rotational speed of a hard drive.

What is the minimum number of drives needed to implement RAID 5?

What are the two elements of hot swapping?

How many failures can RAID 0 withstand and remain functional?

PATA drives dominated the industry for more than a decade, but have been replaced by _______________ drives that send data in serial, using only one wire for data transfers.

Describe four problems associated with the parallel ATA interface.

_______________is a disk-optimization feature for SATA drives that enables faster read and write speeds.

What two questions should be considered before installing or replacing an existing HDD with an SSD?

What are the factors that make either software or hardware RAID the best choice?

Disk striping with parity protects data by adding extra information, called _______________ data, that can be used to rebuild data if one of the drives fails.

Motherboards provide support for the SATA hard drive controllers via the system BIOS, but they require configuration in _______________ for the specific hard drives attached.

Where is the obvious place to start when implementing RAID?

The most important advance in SATA involves _______________.

A common SATA numbering method uses the term _______________ for each controller.

When installing PATA drives, how do you set the jumpers?

How do you install solid state drives, including installation into a desktop or tower?

Regardless of the external interface, you will find an ordinary SATA drive inside the _______________ (the name used to describe the casing of external hard drives).

How can you take advantage of eSATA in a desktop or laptop if an external connector does not exist?

Briefly describe the various SSD memory technologies.