Exam 11: Hard Drive Technologies

Which SATA variety runs at 6 GBPS?

The ____ interface enables non-hard drive devices to connect to the PC via the ATA controllers.

With ____________________ there's no master,slave,cable select,or jumpers configurations to mess with.

Disk striping by itself does not provide ____________________ of data.

The maximum SATA-device cable length is ____________________.

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

____________________ has up to three options that are set in CMOS: IDE or compatibility mode,AHCI,or RAID.

What add-on board might you also find a SSD hard drive attached to?

Windows Vista supports hybrid hard drives (HHDs)and offers ____________________ for faster caching and booting.

In early hard drives,the actuator arm was moved in fixed increments or steps using a (n)____________________.

Mirroring is also known as ____________________.

How many pins does an EIDE (ATA)drive have?

Some early versions of what specification used a 25-pin connector?

How many drives can be supported with ATA-2 (sometimes called EIDE)?

A ____ is a circle where data is stored on a drive.

What are the specifications and matching speeds of SATA?

What is CHS?

__________ extends the SATA bus at full speed.

How is hard drive spindle speed measured?

A (n)____________________ drive would be able to run at the speed of the SATA bus.