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1
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How much can a CD-ROM hold?

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Up to 700 MB

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How much can a DVD-ROM hold?

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Up to 4.7 GB

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How much can a Dual Layer DVD-ROM hold?

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Up to 8.5 GB

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How much can a Blu-Ray hold?

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Up to 25 GB

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How much can a Dual Layer Blu-Ray hold?

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Up to 50 GB

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Which optical format can hold up to 700 MB?

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CD-ROM

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Which optical format can hold up to 4.7 GB?

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DVD-ROM

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Which optical format can hold up to 8.5 GB?

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Dual Layer DVD-ROM

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Which optical format can hold up to 25 GB?

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Blu-Ray

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Which optical format can hold up to 50 GB?

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Dual Layer Blu-Ray

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How does commercial devices write to optical media?

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They create tiny bumps on the disk

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How does retail devices write optical media?

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They burn the photosensitive dye

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Which types of optical media can be rewriteable?

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RW and for Blu-Ray (BD-RE)

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Which types of optical media can only be recorded once?

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R (ie DVD-R, BD-R)

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How does a Hard Disk Drive (HHD) operate?

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By spinning platters inside of the HHD

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What does RW mean on optical media?

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Rewritable

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17
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What does R mean on optical media?

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Recordable

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What does the platters on a HDD spin around?

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Spindle

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What is a spindle?

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It is what the platters inside of a HDD spin around

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What moves the arm back and forth on a HDD?

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Actuator

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What does an actuator do?

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Moves the arm back and forth on an HDD

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What read and writes information onto the platter of a HDD?

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Head

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What does the head on a HDD do?

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It reads and writes information onto the platter of a HDD

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What is a Solid State Drive (SSD)?

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A storage device containing non-volatile flash memory, used in place of a hard disk because of its much greater speed.

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Which is faster SSD or HDD?
Solid State Drive (SSD)
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What does an SSD use as memory?
Flash Memory
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What is a Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD)?
It combines a spinning drive and a SSD into a single device
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What combines a spinning drive and a SSD?
Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD)
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What does a SSHD do different?
It caches the slower spinning hard drive data onto the flash memory
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What is a hot swappable drive?
You can add and remove drives while the system is running
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What type of devices can be hot swappable? (4)
USB, Firewire, SATA, eSATA
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Is a USB device hot swappable?
Yes
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Is a Firewire device hot swappable?
Yes
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Is a SATA device hot swappable?
Yes
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Is a eSata device hot swappable?
Yes
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What does USB flash drives use as memory?
EEPROM flash memory
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What is a plus for USB flash drives?
Non-volatile memory and it needs no power to retain data
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What is a negative for USB flash drives?
It has a limited number of writes
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What is the common flash memory type in mobile devices?
eMMC
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What is tape drive commonly used for?
Archival purposes
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How does tape drives store data?
With a magnetic tape with sequential storage
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What type of format does tape drives use?
Linear Tape-Open (LTO)
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Which type of storage device uses the Linear Tape-Open format?
Tape Drives
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Which types of flash drive uses EEPROM flash memory?
USB flash drives
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What type of flash drive has nonvolatile memory and it needs no power to retain data?
USB flash drive
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Which provides a higher performance? Software or hardware based RAID?
Hardware
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Which RAID does just striping?
RAID 0
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What does striping do in RAID systems?
It splits the file blocks between two or more drives
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What is a negative for RAID 0?
It has no redundancy. If one drive fails everything is lost
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What is a positive for RAID 0?
High performance so the data can be written quickly
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What does RAID 0 do?
Striping only
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What does RAID 1 do?
Mirroring only
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Which RAID does just mirroring?
RAID 1
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What is RAID mirroring?
File blocks are duplicated between multiple physical drives
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What is a positive for RAID 1?
High redundancy. If one drive fails you have a backup
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What is a negative for RAID 1?
Requires double the disk space you would normally need
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What does RAID 5 do?
Striping with parity
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Which type of RAID does striping with parity?
RAID 5
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How many disks does RAID 5 need?
Atleast 3
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What does RAID 1+0 do?
A Stripe of mirrors
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How many drives does RAID 1+0 need?
4
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Which RAID does a stripe of mirrors?
RAID 1+0
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What is a HDD speed measured in?
Revolutions per minute (RPM)
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What is measured at Revolutions per minute?
HDD
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What exotic connectors can come with a SSD? (2)
mSata and M.2
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What is a M.2 connector?
A special slot on a motherboard for a SSD
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What is a special slot on a motherboard for an SSD?
M.2 connector
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What is the Windows trim function?
a periodic garbage collection system that identifies SSD memory cells with deleted content and erases them
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Which Windows function is a periodic garbage collection system that identifies SSD memory cells with deleted content and erases them
Windows trim function
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What is the host bus adapter (HBA)?
SATA controller
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What is the max distance of a PATA cable?
18 inches
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What is the max number of SATA drives you can have in a computer?
Unlimited
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What is hot swapping?
Where you can plug in and uplug a device while a computer is running
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What is the max throughput of SATA 3.2 / SATAe?
16 Gb/s
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If you have two drives on separate controllers and they mirror each other what is that called?
disk duplexing
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What is disk duplexing?
You have two drives each on a separate controller and they mirror each other
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Which raid options come with Windows Server?
RAID 0 / 1 / 5
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What is a Hard disk drive (HDD)?
A hard disk is a thick magnetic disk encased in a thicker protective shell.
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Standard hard drives are categorized as:
5400 rpm (inexpensive HDD) 7200 rpm (good quality HDD) 10,000 rpm (expensive HDD)
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How much can a CD-RW hold?
650 Megabytes

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