Exam 11: Hard Drive Technologies

What is a sector?

PATA drives are designated as ____________________ and ____________________.

What is the purpose of AHCI?

The non-chipset-based SATA controllers require a(n)____________________ to function.

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

What is the advantage of disk duplexing over disk mirroring?

How do non-hard drive devices get their BIOS?

What is disk duplexing?

What is RLL?

Hardware RAID supports ____________________,which allows drives to be removed with power on.

The ATA-2 standard defined a way to get past the 504-MB limit with ___________________.

The mirroring technique in which each drive has its own controller is called ____.

To support RAID 5,you must have at least ____________________ drives.

What is disk mirroring?

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

The ____________________ describes the drive geometry to the CMOS.

What is disk striping?

With ATA/ATAPI-6,drives can be as large as ____________________ PB.

ATA/66,ATA/100,and ATA/133 require a ____ cable.

Which newer port is found on laptops and enables you to connect an internal drive (HDD,SSD,or optical drive)to your laptop without an enclosure?