Mass Storage Flashcards

1
Q

Mass Storage

Types of mass storage

A

Hard Drivers

Solid State Drives

Optical Media

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2
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Mass Storage

Regardless of OS - your systems sees mass storage as

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Logical Block Address’s

LBAs

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3
Q

Mass Storage

There is a difference between decimal values and

A

IEC values

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4
Q

Mass Storage

Magnetic drives data storage

A

Spinning Platters

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5
Q

Mass Storage

How do spinning platters actually store data

A

via magnetism and read/write heads

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6
Q

Mass Storage

Har disk sizes

A
  1. 5
  2. 5
  3. 8
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7
Q

Mass Storage

What protocol is used to communicate with hard disk drives

Ataboy

A

Advanced Technology Attachment

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8
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Mass Storage

The dominant ATA is called

A

SATA

Serial ATA

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9
Q

Mass Storage

Archaic and the domain of old ATA is called

A

PATA

Parallel ATA

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10
Q

Mass Storage

Solid State drives (SSDs) store data using chips

A

There are no moving parts.

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11
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Mass Storage

Data is stored in

A

Blocks and pages.

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12
Q

Mass Storage

SSDs come in the following sizes

A
  1. 5
  2. 5

M.2

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13
Q

Mass Storage

A protocol that increases performance over SATA in SSDs

NeVerMindE

A

NVMe

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14
Q

Mass Storage

An ancient standard that still has great support

A

Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI)

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15
Q

Mass Storage

This old SCSI technology is long gone

A

PATA

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16
Q

Mass Storage

SCSI lang is still

17
Q

Mass Storage

Modern SCSI standard

A

Serial Attached SCSI
–and–
iSCSI

18
Q

Mass Storage

When a system boots its looking for a

A

bootable device

19
Q

Mass Storage

It is important that the system looks for these boot devices

A

The correct ones

20
Q

Mass Storage

Boot order is defined in

A

CMOS system setup

21
Q

Mass Storage

Storage is organized into Logical Blocks

22
Q

Mass Storage

These describe capacity not organizational structure

A

Gigabytes
and
Gibibytes

23
Q

Mass Storage

These are the organizational structure of SSDs but not all mass storage devices

24
Q

Mass Storage

Command and connection standard for mass storage devices.

A

Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA)

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Mass Storage This uses a serial data transfer protocol.
SATA
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Mass Storage SATA Data is transferred one bit at a time from the drive to the computer and
one bit at a time from the computer to the drive.
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Mass Storage SSD memory cells
Pages
28
Mass Storage Magnetic drive storage units
Sectors
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Mass Storage Why is NVMe the fastest interface
Because it uses PCLe lanes
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Mass Storage Combined SCSI and SATA
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
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Mass Storage What language does SAS speak
SCSI command language
32
Mass Storage Connector interface and a form factor.
M.2
33
Mass Storage Uses SCSi commands over ethernet
iSCSI
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Mass Storage Not a boot device
UEFI its a firmware interface
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Mass Storage USB drivers, optical drives and SSDs are valid boot devices but will only boot if
They contain a working, properly-created bootable drive image.