Chapter 8 - Mass Storage Flashcards
What does LBA stand for?
Logical Block Addressing.
5.25 inch mass storage
mainly used and seen for optical media.
3.5 inch mass storage
was the dominant format for mass storage for a long time.
2.5 inch laptop mass storage
Original designed for laptops and mobile devices.
1.8 mass storage
Rarely used mass storage format
m.2 - mass storage.
Is the current dominant format for mass storage.
Capacity is counted in what two different number types?
binary(Kibi) and metric base 10 counting(Kilo)
Sector
Is a subdivision of a track on a magnetic disk or optical disc. Each sector stores a fixed amount of user-accessible data
What does HDD stand for?
Hard Disk Drive.
What is ATA?
Advanced Technology Attachment. The language used to speak to optical drives.
Serial ATA (SATA)
Is the dominant ATA that is used today.
eSATA
is still SATA just used for external devices. eSATA devices are not commonly used today.
The internals of SSD are divided into what?
Pages. And a single page can stores thousands of blocks.
Most common SSD size
3.5 inches or 2.5 inches.
NVMe stands for what?
Non-volatile Memory Express which is faster than SATA. Usually manifest as m.2 drives.
What does SAS stand for?
Serial Attached SCSI.
ISCSI
SCSI devices that are connected to your system via ethernet cable.
What does SCSI stand for?
Small Computer System Interface. Is an old standard that still has great support. Only really seen on servers, not on desktops.
Serial SCSI.
Has replaced parallel SCSI. But still uses SCSI language.
Where is boot order defined
In the CMOS System Setup.
Mass storage interfaces from fastest to slowest?
NVMe, SATA, SCSI, and PATA.
