WorksheetsMass Storage Technologies
Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 22mins
What does HDD Stand for?
Hard Disk Drive
Hard Desk Drive
Hard Digital Drive
High Definition Drive
Inside hard drives, there are layers of individual disks called _____.
Disks
Platters
Spindles
Records
On the top of each platter, each head has a bit-sized ________ to read or write to each spot on the drive.
Spindle
Platter
Transducer
Disk
Which of the following is NOT a name of a traditional HDD?
Magnetic hard drive
Rotational drives
Platter-based hard drive
Solid State Drive
Hard drives run at a set ________ speed, with spinning platters.
spindle
transducer
ludicrous
bandwidth
What does RPM stand for?
Rounds per minute
Revolutions per minute
Rate per minute
Radeons per minute
What are the two common types of speeds for HDDs?
3600 and 7200 RPM
5400 and 7200 RPM
10,000 and 15,000 RPM
5400 and 10,000 RPM
What speeds do high-performance drives run at?
3600 and 4800 RPM
72,000 and 52,000 RPM
10,000 and 15,000 RPM
7200 and 9400 RPM
What cuts the life of hard drives dramatically?
too much electricity
making it rotate counter-clockwise
static electricity
excess heat
What are the two standardized form factors of magnetic hard drives?
2.5 inch and 3.5 inch
3 and 4 inch
2 and 4 inch
3.5 and 4.5 inch
What does SSD stand for?
Serial State Drive
Solid State Drive
Static State Drive
Silent Serial Drive
SSDs are based on what combination of parts?
semiconductors and transistors
sugar and spice
RAM and CPU
Platters and Spindles
Do SSDs have any moving parts?
Yes
No
What kind of memory chips do SSDs use?
semiconductors
flash
IDE
DDR4
Which one of the following is NOT a form factor of SSDs for PCs?
2.5-inch
mSATA
M2
3.5-inch
Which is more expensive between HDD and SSD?
SSD
HDD
What do you need to be aware of with the cheaper SSDs?
They put in moving parts
They usually fail
They implement less reliable generic brands
They implement less reliable multi-level cell memory technology in place of more efficient single-level cell technology.
Which is NOT one of the three performance metrics to evaluate when you buy an SSD?
How fast it can read or write long sequences of data stored in the same part of the drive.
How fast it can read or write small chunks of data scattered randomly around the drive
How fast it can access the information and write it to RAM
How quickly it responds to a single request.
Latency is the response time or access time of a drive.
True
False
A drive that combines flash memory and spinning platters to provide fast and reliable storage is called a _____?
SSD
Hybrid hard drive
Floppy drive
Optical drive
What does ATA stand for?
Automated Technology Attachment
Asynchronous Timing Attachment
Advanced Technology Attachment
Association of Technology Aggregates
What is PATA?
Parallel ATA
Partitioned ATA
Pretty ATA
Perpendicular ATA
What is SATA called?
Synchronous ATA
Storage ATA
Speed ATA
Serial ATA
Are PATA or SATA drives faster?
PATA
SATA
Both are the same
Trick question, they are not drives
Can you hook up a HDD or SSD to a powered-up computer?
Yes
No
How many pins are IDE cables?
18
24
30
40
What does S.M.A.R.T. stand for?
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
Serial, Monitoring, Automatic, Response, Technology
Serial, Memory, Analysis, Rotating, Technology
Self-Monitoring, memory, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
What does SMART do?
Runs a self-diagnostic on the memory.
an internal drive program that tracks errors and error conditions within the drive.
Self-correcting drive that compensates for latency
an internal program that corrects errors and enhances the performance of the drive.
Which is an IDE cable?
Which is a SATA cable?
What plugs into this?
SATA Drive
USB
IDE Drive
Firewire
What does SCSI stand for?
Server computing system interface
Seral computer system interface
Small computer system interface
Serial controller sequencing interface
Where are SCSI drives usually used in?
Desktop PCs
Servers
Laptops
Tablets
The process of reading and writing data at the same time to two drives is called ______?
disk striping
disk mirroring
disk duplexing
disk driving
The process of spreading the data among multiple drives (at least two) is called ______?
disk striping
disk mirroring
disk duplexing
disk driving
With two drives, each on a separate controller, the system will continue to operate even its primary drives' controller stops working is called _____?
disk striping
disk mirroring
disk duplexing
disk driving
RAID array 0 (zero) means:
Disk Striping
Disk Mirroring/Duplexing
Disk Striping with Distributed Parity
Disk Striping with Extra Parity
Nested, Striped Mirrors
RAID array 1 means:
Disk Striping
Disk Mirroring/Duplexing
Disk Striping with Distributed Parity
Disk Striping with Extra Parity
Nested, Striped Mirrors
RAID array 5 means:
Disk Striping
Disk Mirroring/Duplexing
Disk Striping with Distributed Parity
Disk Striping with Extra Parity
Nested, Striped Mirrors
RAID array 6 means:
Disk Striping
Disk Mirroring/Duplexing
Disk Striping with Distributed Parity
Disk Striping with Extra Parity
Nested, Striped Mirrors
RAID array 10 means:
Disk Striping
Disk Mirroring/Duplexing
Disk Striping with Distributed Parity
Disk Striping with Extra Parity
Nested, Striped Mirrors
Where do you configure a SATA drive?
Control Panel of Windows
BIOS
Special Diagnostic Tool
Properties of the drive
The order in which you want the PC to check for an operating system or start from is called the _____?
autodetection
BIOS
Boot order
the rule of two
