Exam 11: Hard Drive Technologies

Describe the use of the 25-pin SCSI connector.

Drive platters are made of aluminum and are coated with a (n)____________________ medium.

Every ____________________ requires two heads.

Describe the spindle or rotational speed of a hard drive.

What are some methods of terminating a SCSI chain?

An extremely advanced RLL method is known as ____________________.

The SCSI host adapter uses the ____ to differentiate between devices.

What is ESATAP?

The ____ standard features a 48-bit addressing scheme.

All of the following are common hard drive speeds EXCEPT:

What is the primary controller?

What do nonvolatile flash memory devices use to retain data when power is turned off or disconnected?

What is autodetection?

Modern PATA drives use a ____ connector for power.

How many devices are supported per SATA controller channel?

How many wires does the SATA interface have?

Most SCSI devices require you to set a ____________________ or ____________________ for termination.

What is the function of termination in a SCSI chain?

Fluxes are grouped in runs using a data encoding system known as ____________________.

What is a series of SCSI devices working together through a host adapter called?