Quiz 5 (Ch6)

Question 1

What are the 3 main parts of a Hard Drive?

Answer 1

1- rotating disk or platters.
2- read/write head.
3- actuator arm.

Question 2

What is Seek time?

Answer 2

The time it takes the hard drive to allocate the free sector.

Question 3

What is latency?

Answer 3

The time it takes the hard drive to rotate this disk to allocate the free sector.

Question 4

What is write time?

Answer 4

The time it takes to write on the free sector.

Question 5

What does IDE drives stand for?

Answer 5

Integrated hard drive electronics drives.

Question 6

What does ATA stand for?

Answer 6

Advanced technology attachment.

Question 7

ATA hard drives are subcategorized into two kinds?

Answer 7

1- Parallel ATA (PATA)
2- Serial ATA (SATA)

Question 8

What does EIDE stand for?

Answer 8

Enhanced Integrated hard drive electronics

Question 9

What does SCSI stand for? What are used for?

Answer 9

Small computer system interface, mainly used by many server machines.

Question 10

What does RAID stand for?

Answer 10

Redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disk.