Storage & File Systems (ITF+)

What is the advantage of a solid-state drive (SSD) over a traditional hard drive?

• Faster performance

• Larger storage capacity

• Lower cost

• Longer lifespan

What is the advantage of using an M.2 interface for an SSD?

• Smaller form factor

• Higher throughput

• Compatibility with SATA

• External power requirement

What does this cable connect to inside of a desktop PC? (CHOOSE 2)

• SATA power port on HDD

• SATA data port on HDD

• SATA Aux Power on Power Supply

• External HDD Data and Power connector

• Motherboard SATA Port

Match the following

• Magnetic

• 
• Portable Solid State

• 
• Internal Solid State

• 
• External

• 
• Optical

• 

The Windows ​ (a)   utility allows you to view all ​ (b)   that exist on your HDD, as well as allowing you to ​ (c)   new volumes with a specific ​ (d)   such as ​ (e)  

• Disk Managmement
• volumes
• create and format
• file system
• NTFS

This utility will help to identify files that are not needed and safe to remove your hard drive

• Disk Defragmenter

• Disk Cleanup

• Regcleaner

• Disk Management

If you have a newer system with a ​ (a)   BIOS, you should format your HDD as a ​ (b)   disk to take advantage of technology improvements. If it is an older system with a traditional BIOS, use the ​ (c)   option when installing your disk

• UEFI
• GPT
• MBR

Label each item on this hard drive

a

b

c

d

Spindle

Read/Write Head

Magnetic Platter

Actuator Arm

How much data could be stored on this single sided disc

• 4.8 GB

• 8.4 GB

• 16.8 GB

• 25 GB

• 32 GB

If you have two partitions that are formatted to use NTFS, the parition that has the OS installed should be labelled as the ______ partition?

• extended

• active

• logical

• unallocated