Chapter 2: Storage, Devices & Power Supplies

Question 1

what is RAID 5? p93

Answer 1

It will distribute parities evenly between all drives.

Question 2

What is RAID 1? P93

Answer 2

It is a method of producing fault tolerance by writing all data simultaneously to two separate drives.

Question 3

What is Removable storage and Media? p93

Answer 3

some types are tape backup devises,solid state memory,advanced optical drives,and USB drives.

Question 4

What is RAID?P92

Answer 4

Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

Question 5

What does RAID do?p92

Answer 5

it is a way of combining the storage power of more than one hard disk for special purposes.

Question 6

What is a DVD-ROM?p82

Answer 6

Has data encoded, not able to be changed.

Question 7

What is a DVD-R,DVD+R?P83

Answer 7

Being able to be written to once .

Question 8

What is DVD-RAM? P83

Answer 8

Able to be written on and erased just like a floppy disk.

Question 9

What is IDE?p84

Answer 9

It decreases signal loss ( thus increasing reliability) eliminating the need for low level formatting.

Question 10

Whats ATA? P85

Answer 10

ADVANCED technology attachment. .

Question 11

How many IDE channels can a master drive have .p86

Answer 11

Just 1

Question 12

What is SCSI.P89

Answer 12

Small computer system interface.

Question 13

What can SCIS be used for?p89

Answer 13

internal or external for the computer. The internal SCIS A cable has a 50-pin ribbon cable similar to a IDE drive.

Question 14

What IDE/p84

Answer 14

Integrated drive electronics.

Question 15

Does Blu ray have rewritable discs? And what is its suffix?

Answer 15

Yes, RE short for re-recordable.