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Chapter 9 - Implementing Mass Storage Flashcards

1
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What does RAID stand for?

A

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks(RAID)

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Raid is what?

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Hard drive organization that allows for speed and data redundancy. that are broken down into different levels.

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Raid 0

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First Raid level known as striping, which uses a minimum of two drives. Advantage of Raid 0 is speed. disadvantage is no data safety or redundancy

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Raid 1

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Next level of Raid known as Mirroring which can use 2 to 4 hard drives. advantage is redundancy. disadvantage is low speed.

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Raid 5

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Known as Parity, minimum of 3 drives. Advantage redundancy and speed. Disadvantage data safety. You can only lose one drive.

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Raid 6

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is a minimum of four drives. Most common Raid level. You can lose 2 drives.

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Raid 10

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Known as striping mirrors. Minimum of 4 drives or 2 mirrored pairs of drives. Striped Mirrored drives

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8
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Raid 0+1

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also requires minimum of 4 drives or 2 pairs of striped drives. mirrored striped drives.

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What is a Hot spare or swappable drive.

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A free non used drive plugged into the system readily available to replace or take over for a dead or lost drive to rebuild your Raid array.

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10
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Hardware Raid requires what?

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A controller to configure the Raid arrays.

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11
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Hardware Raid has what?

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its own BIOS that comes with a special system setup to configure the Raid array.

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12
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How does a operating system view a complete array.

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As one whole single drive.

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13
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Number one mass storage troubleshooting rule is what?

A

Make a back up of your data.

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14
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Number two mass storage troubleshooting rule is what?

A

mental backtrack your install steps

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15
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Number three mass storage troubleshooting rule is what?

A

Triple check everything.

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16
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Raid not found/Raid not working error

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  1. raid is not installed. 2. Is your raid controller active. 3. do you have the right drives for your system. 4. is there and can you get to the Hardware Raid setup. 5. make sure drives are connected properly.
17
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Read/write failure error

A

you can use S.M.A.R.T which is built into every motherboard that allows you to queue a hard drive.

18
Q

Slow Performance error

A

check your RAM you may need more RAM to allow you system to run as fast as it should.

19
Q

Loud Clicking sound

A

Dead Hard Drive. Hard Drive has to be replaced.

20
Q

Failure to boot error.

A

messed up boot order computer to booting to wrong hard drive. Check boot order.

21
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Drive not recognized error

A

Drive itself has a formatting issue. Reformat the drive.

22
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OS not found error

A

Messed up boot order. Check boot order

23
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Attempts to boot incorrect device error

A

Messed up boot order. Check boot order.

24
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Continuous Reboots

A

OS system issue.

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