Exam 8: Supporting Hard Drives

Explain the parallel ATA or EIDA drive standards.

Match each term with the correct statement below. -Has no moving parts

List three things to check if BIOS setup does not recognize a newly installed hard drive.

Match each term with the correct statement below. -A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files

External ____ is up to six times faster than USB or FireWire.

____ is a system BIOS feature that monitors hard drive performance,disk spin up time,temperature,distance between the head and the disk,and other mechanical activities of the drive in order to predict when the drive is likely to fail.

Solid state hard drives cost more and are less rugged than magnetic hard drives.

Match each term with the correct statement below. -Uses both solid state and magnetic technologies

Match each term with the correct statement below. -Speeds up access time by allowing blocks of data to be read from the drive at one time

Discuss installing a hardware RAID system for best performance.

The first sector on the disk,called the boot sector or ____ record,contains the information about how the disk is organized and the file system used.

Match each term with the correct statement below. -A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives

____ on a circuit board inside the drive housing is responsible for writing and reading data to these tracks and sectors and for keeping track of where everything is stored on the drive.

Discuss how RAID can be implemented.

The top and bottom of each disk of a magnetic hard drive have a(n)____ that moves across the disk surface as all the disks rotate on a spindle.

Explain hard drive interface standards.

An extended partition can be divided into one or more ____________________ drives.

If you are mounting a hard drive into a bay that is too large,a ____ kit can help you securely fit the drive into the bay.

Match each term with the correct statement below. -The smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file and is made up of one or more sectors

____ transfers data directly from the drive to memory without involving the CPU.