Unit 5 Supporting Hard Drive Study Guide
Chapter 5
Supporting Hard Drives
Reviewing the Basics
1. What are the two types of technologies used inside hard drives? SOLID STATE & MAGNETIC
2. What are four speeds in revolutions per minute that the spindle inside a hard drive might rotate? 5400, 7200, 10000, 15000
3. What is the name of the Windows technology that supports a memory buffer in a hybrid drive? READY DRIVE
4. When the OS addresses the sectors on a hard drive as one long list of sequential sectors, what is this technology called? LBA
5. A CD drive that uses a PATA connection must follow what standard? ATAPI
6. How many pins does an 80-conductor IDE cable have? What is the maximum recommended length of an IDE cable? 40 PINS, 18 INCHES
7. What is the transfer speed of an IDE interface using the ATA-7 standard? 133 MB …show more content…
What is the transfer speed for SATA I? SATA II? SATA III? 1.5, 3, 6
9. How many pins does a SATA data cable have? How many pins does a SATA power cable have? 7 PINS, 15 PINS
10. What term describes the technology that allows you to exchange a hard drive without powering down the system? HOT SWAPPING
11. What are the four possible configurations for a PATA drive installed in a system? PRIMARY MASTER, PRIMARY SLAVE, SECONDARY MASTER, SECONDARY SLAVE
12. Which SCSI ID is assigned to the SCSI host adapter? SCSI ID 7
13. Which two SCSI connectors might be used with narrow SCSI? 50 AND 25 PIN
14. Which version of SCSI is known as Fast SCSI? Which version is known as Ultra SCSI? SCSI 2, SCSI 3
15. Which RAID level mirrors one hard drive with a second drive so that the same data is written to both drives? RAID 1
16. Which RAID level stripes data across multiple drives to improve performance and also provides fault tolerance? RAID 5
17. How many hard drives does it take to implement RAID 10? 4
Supporting Hard Drives
Reviewing the Basics
1. What are the two types of technologies used inside hard drives? SOLID STATE & MAGNETIC
2. What are four speeds in revolutions per minute that the spindle inside a hard drive might rotate? 5400, 7200, 10000, 15000
3. What is the name of the Windows technology that supports a memory buffer in a hybrid drive? READY DRIVE
4. When the OS addresses the sectors on a hard drive as one long list of sequential sectors, what is this technology called? LBA
5. A CD drive that uses a PATA connection must follow what standard? ATAPI
6. How many pins does an 80-conductor IDE cable have? What is the maximum recommended length of an IDE cable? 40 PINS, 18 INCHES
7. What is the transfer speed of an IDE interface using the ATA-7 standard? 133 MB …show more content…
What is the transfer speed for SATA I? SATA II? SATA III? 1.5, 3, 6
9. How many pins does a SATA data cable have? How many pins does a SATA power cable have? 7 PINS, 15 PINS
10. What term describes the technology that allows you to exchange a hard drive without powering down the system? HOT SWAPPING
11. What are the four possible configurations for a PATA drive installed in a system? PRIMARY MASTER, PRIMARY SLAVE, SECONDARY MASTER, SECONDARY SLAVE
12. Which SCSI ID is assigned to the SCSI host adapter? SCSI ID 7
13. Which two SCSI connectors might be used with narrow SCSI? 50 AND 25 PIN
14. Which version of SCSI is known as Fast SCSI? Which version is known as Ultra SCSI? SCSI 2, SCSI 3
15. Which RAID level mirrors one hard drive with a second drive so that the same data is written to both drives? RAID 1
16. Which RAID level stripes data across multiple drives to improve performance and also provides fault tolerance? RAID 5
17. How many hard drives does it take to implement RAID 10? 4