Learning unit 5.2

Question 1

How would you achieve the best RAID performance?

Answer 1

By ensuring that all drives in array are identical in brand, size, speed, and other features

Question 2

How would you implement Hardware RAID?

Answer 2

By using a RAID-enabled motherboard that is managed in BIOS/UEFI setup and a RAID controller card

Question 3

What do S.M.A.R.T error mean?

Answer 3

That data should be backed up and the drive replaced

Question 4

What does the performance of a system depend on?

Answer 4

The individual performances of the processor, motherboard, memory and hard drive

Question 5

Mention the things that can cause problems during boot

Answer 5

-Hard drive subsystem
-File system on device
-Files required by Windows

Question 6

Define a file system

Answer 6

The overall structure the Operating system uses to name, store and organize files

Question 7

Define formatting

Answer 7

Its a process that erases all data on a device/drive

Question 8

Mention the types of file systems

Answer 8

-NTFS
-exFAT
-FAT32
-FAT
-UDF

Question 9

Why are hard drives sometimes stored in external enclosures?

Answer 9

-The enclosures make it easy to expand the storage capacity of the computer

-To make a hard drive storage available to the entire network

Question 10

What do enclosure do for NAS (Network Attached Storage)?

Answer 10

They connect to the network using an Ethernet port

Question 11

When can you purchase a SATA controller that provides external eSATA connection to be used?

Answer 11

When the motherboard eSATA port isn’t working or when the motherboard doesn’t support a fast SATA standard that the drive uses

Question 12

Why use RAID?

Answer 12

To improve performance by writing data to two or more hard drives so that a single drive is not excessively used

To improve fault tolerance by writing two copies of it, each to a different hard drive