Chapter 9 Review: Hard Drive Technologies

Question 1

This sata connector is used for external hard drives:

Answer 1

eSATA

Question 2

How do you differentiate between two PATA drives on the same cable?

Answer 2

You set jumpers on the individual drives to determine master and slave

Question 3

Potential causes of continuous system reboot loops include:

Answer 3

• Overheating
• Corrupt OS
• Hardware failure
• Misconfigured OS

Question 4

What are typical SSD form factors?

Answer 4

1.8, 2.5, and 3.5 inch

Question 5

RAID 5 is also known as?

Answer 5

Disk striping with parity

Question 6

How many drives minimum are required for a RAID 5 array?

Answer 6

3

Question 7

This RAID provides 0 redundancy, but improves speed

Answer 7

RAID 0

Question 8

This technique uses two disks and two controllers:

Answer 8

Drive duplexing

Question 9

True or false: a 7200 RPM HDD will generate more heat than a 5400 RPM HDD

Answer 9

True

Question 10

How many PATA hard drives can you have on a system with two PATA hard drive controllers?

Answer 10

4

Question 11

ATA-3 introduced _____, an internal drive program that tracks errors on a hard drive to predict potential drive failures

Answer 11

S.M.A.R.T

Question 12

How many failures can a RAID 1 and 5 array withstand while still remaining functional?

Answer 12

1

Question 13

How many failures can a RAID 10 array withstand while still remaining functional?

Answer 13

Up to 2

Question 14

Disk striping with distributed parity is also known as:

Answer 14

RAID 5

Question 15

Cable select requires a special cable with a pinhole through the wire. Does position of the drives on the cable matter?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

List the RAID levels in order of minimum number of drives required

Answer 16

RAID 0 (2)
RAID 1 (2)
RAID 5 (3)
RAID 6 (4)
RAID 10 (4)

Question 17

PATA allows for a maximum of 18 inch cables while SATA allows a maximum cable length of ____

Answer 17

40 inches or 1 meter

Question 18

What allows SSDs to retain data when a system is powered off?

Answer 18

NAND

Question 19

Name three parallel ATA devices

Answer 19

IDE, EIDE, ATA

Question 20

Is SCSI a parallel ATA device?

Answer 20

No

Question 21

What is the throughput of SATA 1.0

Answer 21

1.5 Gbps / 150 MBps

Question 22

What is the throughput of SATA 2.0

Answer 22

3 Gbps / 300 MBps

Question 23

What is the throughput of SATA 3.0

Answer 23

6 Gbps / 600 MBps

Question 24

What is the throughput of SATA 3.2

Answer 24

16 Gbps

Question 25

What program in Windows can configure drives for RAID?

Answer 25

Disk management