Exam 11: Hard Drive Technologies

What are the four different technologies used for hard drives today?

Which of the following hard drive geometry values is no longer relevant in today's PCs?

Since any SCSI device might be on the end of a chain,most manufacturers build SCSI devices that can ____.

What tool can you use in Windows to configure and manage hard drives and RAID levels?

Each group of tracks of the same diameter in a hard drive forms what is called a(n)____________________.

Most current drives use an extremely advanced method of RLL called ___________________ encoding.

Which of the following does not require jumper settings?

Disk mirroring is also known as _____.

The __________ is the name used to describe the casing of external hard drives.

ATAPI devices plug into a (n)____________________ controller on the motherboard.

Internal SCSI devices connect to the host adapter with a ____-pin ribbon cable.

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

Which disks typically do not need defragmenting?

____________________ do not have mechanical moving parts and do not create heat or wear down as quickly as platter-based drives.

Explain the connections in a SCSI host adapter.

The direction of the ____________________ defines a 1 or a 0 on the hard drive.

The SATA __________ specification runs at 1.5 GBPS.

Each platter requires ____ heads.

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

After installing a PATA drive,it is not recognized.You verify the cabling.You should now check the ____________________.