Exam 11: Hard Drive Technologies

What is the process of spreading data across multiple drives?

How many ATA devices can be connected to most PCs?

The SATA 2.0 specification has a speed of:

What is the key factor in dealing with overheating from faster drives?

The number of sectors in each track is referred to as the ____________________ value.

A system with INT13 extensions can handle drives as large as ____________________.

What hard drive technology typically implements a 1.8-,2.5-,or 3.5-inch form factor?

Which RAID levels combined dedicated data drives with dedicated parity drives?

Hard drives today employ a (n)____________________ to move the actuator arms.

Which interface requires a ribbon cable and a built-in controller on the drive itself?

Combining different types of RAID into a single array (such as RAID0+1)is known as ____________________ solutions.

What does SATA use instead of a master/slave concept?

Disk striping with ____________________ protects data with fault tolerance.

Where a hard drive stores data is determined by the ____________________.

Laptops,memory cards,USB thumb drives,and hand-held devices often use ____ technology.

List any three features of solid-state drives.

____ stores data in a unique pattern of 1s and 0s.

In current drives,the BIOS automatically updates the CHS values in the CMOS through a process called ____________________.

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

The drive technology that supports only a single device per controller channel is known as _____.