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____ makes addressing any form of mass storage easy, and that’s how the operating system interacts with the mass storage, via blocks |
Logical Block Addressing, LBA |
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When a computer starts it does a _____ test, then looks for a bootable OS on a drive |
Power on self test, POST |
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___comes in 3.5,2.5 and 1.8 sizes |
Hard drives __ 3.5 popular 2.5 originally popular in lab top, (however even some small servers have them today) and 1.8 sizes was popular with SSD but lost popularity because of m.2 SSD format took over. |
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The dominant ATA today is |
SATA (serial ATA) |
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We use advanced technology attachment for what? |
Also known as ATA and mainly for Hard drives and optical drives storage |
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Esata(external SATA) is not as popular today because of USB storage devices. True or false? |
True |
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__ use spinning platters to store data via magnetism and read/write heads |
Magnetic disk drives |
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The original ATA standard defined a very specific series of commands for the CPU to communicate with the drive controller. The current drive command sets are AHCI and NVMe. The SCSI command set is still around as well, though primarily in the server market. |
True |
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Current versions of Windows support the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), an efficient way to work with SATA HBAs. Using AHCI unlocks some of the advanced features of SATA, such as native command queuing and hot-swapping. |
True |
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Native command queuing (NCQ) is a disk-optimization feature for SATA drives. It takes advantage of the SATA interface to achieve faster read and write speeds that are simply impossible with the old PATA drives. |
True |
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while SATA supports hot-swapping ability, the motherboard and the operating system must also support this. |
True |
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AHCI mode is enabled at the CMOS level (see “BIOS Support: Configuring CMOS and Installing Drivers” later in this chapter) and generally needs to be enabled before you install the operating system. Enabling it after installation will cause Windows to Blue Screen. How nice. |
True |
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fill in blanks Each SATA variety is named for the revision to the SATA specification that introduced it, with the exception of SATAe: • SATA 1.0: __________ • SATA 2.0: __________ • SATA 3.0: ______&& • SATA 3.2: __________ also known as SATAe SATA’s ease of use has made it the choice for desktop system storage. |
SATA 1.0: 1.5 Gbps/150 MBps • SATA 2.0: 3 Gbps/300 MBps• SATA 3.0: 6 Gbps/600 MBps• SATA 3.2: up to 16 Gbps/ |
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EXAM TIP The CompTIA A+ 1001 exam objectives refer to the 40-pin PATA ribbon cable as an IDE cable. They’re the same thing, so don’t miss this one on the exam! |
True |
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Today SCSI uses serial connection like SATA. Although SCSI is mostly used for servers today |
True |
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_________ hard drives provide fast and robust storage for servers and storage arrays today. The latest SAS interface, SAS-3, provides speeds of up to 12 Gbps. ___controllers also support SATA drives, which is cool and offers a lot of flexibility for techs, especially in smaller server situations. SAS implementations offer literally more than a dozen different connector types. Most look like slightly chunkier versions of a SATA con |
Serial attach SCSI, (SAS) |
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SCSI connection that uses Ethernet it's known as |
ISCSI |
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M.2 is that modern format for ____ |
Solid state drives (SSD) |
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5.25 size drives are mainly used for |
Optical media (CD,DVD,blue ray etc) |
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Hard drive stores bits of data in ___ which stores about 4096 bits of data per unit.. |
Sectors |
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Inside a solid state hard drive or ____ of data that are stored in ______ |
Blocks pages |
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This is the inside of what? |
Solid state drive |
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This is the inside of what? |
Solid state drives |
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Magnetic hard drive use ____ technology to communicate and to LBA (Logical block addressing) in essence this the language that disk drive speak.. |
ATA or advanced technology attachment.. |
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The most common form of ATA used today is ____ |
serial ATA, (SATA) |
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ATA that sense data through 16 Lanes all at once has proved less effective and sending it one lane at a time what's known as? |
Parallel ATA or PATA technology.. |
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On the right sign up this magnetic hard drive is the power connector already connected. What connection needs to be connected? |
SATA connection. Here's a picture of it connected |
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___ standard is way faster than sata and used in mostly m.2 instead other ssd, although some m.2 still uses sata |
Nvme(non-volatile, memory, express) |
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Standard SSD is way faster than HDDs, however M.2 drives are even faster than other SSD drives because of |
NVME |
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What are DVD capacity sizes? |
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