Chapter 6 - Assignment Flashcards
What three types of technologies are used inside hard drives?
Solid State Drive, Hybrid Hard Drive, Magnetic Hard Drive
At what three speeds in revolutions per minute might the spindle inside a hard drive rotate?
5400, 7200, or 10,000 RPM
When the OS addresses the sectors on a hard drive as one long list of sequential sectors, what is this technology called?
Logical block addressing
What is the transfer speed for SATA I? SATA II? SATA III?
SATA I: 1.5 Gb/sec, SATA II: 3 Gb/sec, SATA III: 6 Gb/sec
How many pins does a SATA internal data cable have? How many pins does a SATA power cable have?
7-pin and 15-pin
What term describes the technology that allows you to exchange a hard drive without powering down the system?
Hot-swapping/Hot Plugging
Which RAID level mirrors one hard drive with a second drive so that the same data is written to both drives?
Raid 1
Which RAID level stripes data across multiple drives to improve performance and also provides fault Tolerance?
Raid 5
How many hard drives are necessary to implement RAID 10?
4 HHDs are necessary to implement RAID 10
When implementing RAID on a motherboard, where do you enable the feature?
Hardware RAID is implemented using the motherboard UEFI/BIOS or a RAID controller card.
What type of file system is used by Blu-ray discs?
UDF (Universal Disk Format) file system
What type of file system is used by SDXC memory cards?
exFAT file system
How much data can a CD hold?
700 MB
How much data can a double-sided, dual-layer DVD hold?
15.9 GB
How much data can a double-sided, single-layer BD hold?
25 GB
Which costs more, a CD-R or a CD-RW disc?
CD-RW
Which type of flash memory card is currently the smallest type of card?
MicroSD
What command-prompt command do you use to determine if a drive has bad sectors?
chkdsk
What command can you use to rebuild the BCD?
bootrec /rebuildBCD
What physical sizes of hard drives are installed in laptops
2.5”
You install a SATA hard drive and then turn on the computer for the first time. You access UEFI/BIOS setup and see that the drive is not recognized. Which of the following do you do next?
a. Turn off the computer, open the case, and verify that memory modules on the motherboard have not become loose.
b. Turn off the computer, open the case, and verify that the data cable and power cable are connected correctly and jumpers on the drive are set correctly.
c. Verify that UEFI/BIOS autodetection is enabled.
d. Reboot the computer and enter UEFI/BIOS setup again to see if it now recognizes the drive.
C, Verify that the UEFI/BIOS autodetection is enabled
You want to install an SSD drive in your desktop computer, but the drive is far too narrow to fit snugly into the bays of your computer case. Which of the following do you do?
a. Install the SSD in a laptop computer.
b. Buy a bay adapter that will allow you to install the narrow drive in a desktop case bay.
c. This SSD is designed for a laptop. Flash UEFI/BIOS so that your system will support a laptop hard drive.
d. Use a special SATA controller card that will support the narrow hard drive.
B, Buy a bay adapter that will allow you to install the narrow drive in a desktop case bay.
T/F? PATA hard drives are older and slower than SATA hard drives.
True
T/F? SATA 1 is about 10 times faster than SATA 3.
False
