Exam 9: Hard Drive Technologies

Windows supports _______________, drives that combine flash memory and spinning platters to provide fast and reliable storage.

What are the specifications and matching speeds of three common SATA-specific varieties?

What is the maximum SATA device cable length?

What type of cable does a 66 MBps or faster PATA drive require?

The _______________ on SATA controller and power cables makes it impossible to install either incorrectly.

What is meant by just a bunch of disks (or drives), or JBOD?

Briefly describe the purpose of the Windows trim function.

Disk mirroring/duplexing is also known as _______________.

What is the minimum number of drives needed to implement RAID 6?

Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) mode is enabled at the _______________ level and generally needs to be enabled before you install the operating system.

SATA creates a point-to-point connection between the SATA device and the SATA controller, the _______________.

What is a first step in configuring controllers?

With a PATA hard drive that uses a jumper setting called cable select, the position at the end of the cable is the _______________ and the one in the middle is the slave.

How do you implement AHCI? List the available options.

Describe how RAID 5 works.

How do you install M.2 and mSATA drives?

ATA hard drives are often referred to as _______________ drives.

_______________ extends the SATA bus to external devices.

As per the PATA standard, if there is only one hard drive, the drive's jumper is set to master or _______________.