Chapter 6

Reviewing the Basics

1. What three types of technologies are used inside hard drives?

 Solid State, Magnetic, Hybrid
2. At what three speeds in revolutions per minute might the spindle inside a hard drive rotate?
 5400, 7200, 10,000 and 15,000 RPM (Revolutions per minute)
3. When the OS addresses the sectors on a hard drive as one long list of sequential sectors, what is
this technology called?
 LBA (Logical Block Addressing)
4. What is the transfer speed for SATA I? SATA II? SATA III?
 1.5 Gb/s(Gigabytes per second), 3.0 Gb/s, 6.0 Gb/s
5. How many pins does a SATA internal data cable have? How many pins does a SATA power cable
have?
 7 pins, 15 pins
6. What term describes the technology that allows you to exchange a hard drive without powering
down the system?
 Hot-plugging; or Hot-swapping
7. Which RAID level mirrors one hard drive with a second drive so that the same data is written to
both drives?
 RAID 1
8. Which RAID level stripes data across multiple drives to improve performance and also provides
fault tolerance?
 RAID 5
9. How many hard drives are necessary to implement RAID 10?
 4 Hard Drives
10. When implementing RAID on a motherboard, where do you enable the feature?
 On the UEFI/BIOS (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
11. What type of file system is used by Blu-ray discs?
 UDF(Universal Disk Format)
12. What type of file system is used by SDXC memory cards?
 exFAT
13. How much data can a CD hold?
 700MB (Only 650 can be used)
14. How much data can a double-sided, dual-layer DVD hold?
 17 GB (But only 15.50 GB are usable)
15. How much data can a double-sided, single-layer BD hold?
 25 GB
16. Which costs more, a CD-R or a CD-RW disc?
 CD-RW
17. Which type of flash memory card is currently the smallest type of card?
 MicroSD card, or MicroSDXC or MicroSDH
18. What command-prompt command do you use to determine if a drive has bad sectors?
 CHKDSK (Check Disk)
19. What command can you use to rebuild the BCD?
 BootRec/RebuildBCD
20. What physical sizes of hard drives are installed in laptops?
 2.5” or 1.8”