Hardware: Install and configure storage devices and use appropriate media Flashcards
Which of the following is not true regarding Solid State Drives?
a. They are not as fragile as magnetic hard drives
b. They use a read/write assembly
c. They do not require an external power source
d. They are silent when in operation
b. They use a read/write assembly
SSDs have no moving parts
What other popular storage method is an example of a solid state drive?
USB flash drive
What are the concentric circles on a hard disk platter?
Tracks
There are 1024 tracks on a single platter
Where is the MBR stored?
The hard disk
What type of disks are not compatible with HD DVD?
Blu-Ray disks
Is a customer wants to upgrade EIDE drives to SATA drives, what should you consider first?
Whether the motherboard will support SATA drives
Which RAID level duplicates a partition on another physical disk, providing two identical copies of the data?
RAID level 1 (disk mirroring)
Which of the following could transport a 1,100 MB file?
a. DDS-3
b. DVD+R
c. CD-RW
d. CD
a. DDS-3 (Digital data storage)
b. DVD+R
Which factors improve hard disk performance and speed?
a. bigger disk geometry
b. faster seek time
c. higher disk capacity
d. higher rpms
e. higher latency time
- Faster seek time (the speed the actuator arm can read information from the platters of the disk’s read/write position)
- Higher RPMs
What is the name of the media of a hard drive where data is stored?
Disk platter
RAID 0
Disk striping
Minimum disks: 2
Provides no fault tolerance
RAID 1
Disk mirroring
Minimum disks: 2
RAID 5
Disk striping with parity
Minimum disks: 3
RAID 10
Nested RAID, Mirrored striped sets
Minimum disks: 4
Which DVD specification is capable of storing the most data?
DVD+R DL (8.5GB)
