How to Select, Install, and Troubleshoot Storage Drives

Question 1

Installing SATA prep

Answer 1

Some SATA drives have 2 connectors. Choose 1
Never install two at the same time

If you have a SATA drive and PATA connector (or vise vera)
-purchase an adapter or controller card

Question 2

Steps to install SATA drive

Answer 2

1. Know your starting point
2. Read documentation and prepare work area
3. Install drive - check all connectors & verify drive in BIOS
4. Verify installation- boot from windows setup cd or dvd & install.

Question 3

What is Windows Disk Management Utility used for?

Answer 3

For installing a second drive- to partition and format the drive

Question 4

Parallel ata drive

What are the configuration for 4 EIDE devices in a system?

Answer 4

Primary IDE channel, master device
Primary IDE channel, slave device
Secondary IDE channel, master device
Secondary IDE channel, slave device

Question 5

EIDE device designations master and slave are made by?

Answer 5

Setting up jumpers or dip switches
Use special cable-select data cable
-colour coded: blue -motherboard
Black - drive

Question 6

Features of RAID

And what does it stand for?

Answer 6

Redundant array of indepenent disks:
Used for fault tolerance (data loss prevention)
Connects two or more drives to work together as an array of drives

Question 7

Features of RAID 0

(striped)

Answer 7

Connects 2 or more physical drives
Data not duplicated its spread accross disck
No fault tolerance
Used for fast speed

Question 8

RAID 1

Mirroring

Answer 8

Duplicated data on both drives

Used for fault tolerance

Question 9

RAID 5

Striping with parity

Answer 9

Uses 3 or more drives
Parity takes up a whole drive
Information striped accross drives
If one drive crashes parity recovers data
Slow speeds

Question 10

RAID 10

Answer 10

Combination of RAID 0 and 1
Speed of 0, fault tolerance of 1
Minimum 4 disks, uses 50% data storage

Question 11

Installing RAID
For hardware?
For software?

Answer 11

Hardware RAID:
RAID controller card or Hardware RAID controller
Motherboard does the work. RAID array

Software RAID:
Windows does the work.

Question 12

Motherboard and colour coding for Parallel ata drive

Answer 12

Primary channel connector: blue
Secondary channel connector: black
Ata/166/100/133 HD installed on primary ide channel
Step 1:figure out how to configure
2: set jumpers on drives
3: mount the bay in the drive