Computer Repair Chapter 5Supporting hard Drives and Other Storage Devices

What best describes a RAID 5

What is the current maximum storage capacity limit of a magnetic tape

What SATA standard provides a transfer rate of 3 Gb/s

You get a SMART error on your computer, Has the hard drive failed and should it be replaced ?

Chip contains grids of rows and columns with two transistors at each intersection that hold a zero or one bit

You save a movie on your second HDD, and you can’t find it in Windows, what could be wrong with the movie and HDD

Sometimes called JBOD

The SATA drive technology utilizes a serial data path

SATA data cable has how many pins

You try to test a HDD in another computer but it doesn’t have SATA ports, it has a white 4 pin connector, which is what?

Overall structure an OS uses to name, store, and organize files on a drive

Why might you want to use RAID 0 disk configuration

What HDD technology is used to predict when a hard drive is likely to fail

Uses two hard drives to hold a single windows volume

When installing a SATA HDD, move the jumpers on the back of the HDD to instruct computer which is the bootable drive

Which statement regarding the selection of a hard drive is accurate

During boot computer shuts down then says OS not found, you remove cover to check the problem, what would you check

Tims HDD crashed and wants to prevent it and doesn’t want to rely on backups, what RAID configuration do you recommend

What type of RAID is a combination of mirroring and striping

What type of cable is this

Faster the spindle rotates on a traditional magnetic drive the better performance it will have

Computer ability to respond to hardware failure

You install new RAID controller in PCIE and when you finish setup, you turn on computer and see “RAID not found” why?

Jess wants to purchase a fast 4TB HDD and wants to keep cost down as much as possible, what type of drive should she get

Hardware component that facilitates a hardware RAID implementation

You turn on your computer and it will not boot and you hear a loud clicking noise inside the computer, what’s wrong

How many layers of data can exist on a single side of a Blu-Ray disc

Which type of RAID volume is used for fault tolerance and only requires two drives

A type of volume that writes data to all physical disk members evenly for the purpose of improving performance

If a computer is performing slowly due to file fragmentation what windows tool can be utilized to rearrange fragments

If you’re adding a HDD to a system that already has a drive with windows on it what should you do

The read / write head on a magnetic hard drive is at the top and bottom of each disk

Feature in startup BIOS that detects a new drive and selects the correct drive configuration