Exam 7: Storage Devices

What type of drive is best used in a rugged terrain such as building the ice roads in Alaska?

The IDE type that is a point-to-point interface is _______.

The acronym _______ describes drives that can be used instead of mechanical hard drives, but these use memory technology.

The purpose of the additional 40 ground lines in the 80-conductor cable is to increase the data transfer rates and reduce interference from

Two SATA devices can connect to a cable that has two device connectors and a motherboard connector.

A hard drive that contains system files and is used to load software when the computer is turned on is known as a bootable disk.

Older PATA IDE cables and the Ultra ATA/66 cable differ by

What type of hard drive would most commonly be attached to a laptop?

The maximum PATA IDE cable length is inches according to the specification.

What is an erase block as it relates to SSDs?

An eSATA motherboard port can provide power to an external device, but an eSATA port on an adapter cannot.

How many pins are on a PATA IDE motherboard connector?

A teacher calls the help desk, "Hi, my name is Cheryl Schmidt and I called in a problem yesterday that my IP phone won't work in my office. I just got a note through my email that states the problem was closed, but when I came in to work today, my office phone still does not have a phone number and it does not work. Which statement would be the most appropriate from the help-desk technician?

Describe how erasing is used for writing data onto an SSD.

The most popular file system used in businesses and homes today is _______.

What is the maximum number of logical drives an extended partition can have?

A/An _______ disk holds a spanned volume.

1.5Gbps eSATA devices can have a cable up to _______ feet in length.

What is the maximum drive size if the file system being used is exFAT?

To what does FAT refer?