Scenario:
Sharon is troubleshooting a computer and wants to test the hard drive in another computer.
Sharon removes the hard drive and notices that it does not have a SATA power connection.
The connector for power is white and has four pins instead.
What type of connector will Sharon need to test the hard drive in the computer she is using? -
Answers Molex connector
Magnetic hard drive read/write heads are controlled by an _____________, which moves the
read/write heads across the disk surfaces in unison. - Answers Actuator
The hard drive firmware, UEFI/BIOS, and the OS address the sectors on a hard drive utilizing
what technology? - Answers Logical Block Addressing
Scenario:
While working on your computer, you receive the POST error, "Drive Not Recognized."
- You check your SATA cable to see if it is the problem, and it tests fine.
- You remove the hard drive and test it in a computer system known to be in good working
condition and find that the hard drive is working. You can move data and check to make sure
the OS files are not corrupt.
- You use a power supply tester to see if the voltage for the SATA power connection is correct,
and the test shows the power is correct.
- You check BIOS to make sure the hard drive can be recognized and find that all settings in
BIOS are at default, so the system should recognize the hard drive.
, What might be the problem with your hard drive system? - Answers SATA port has failed
What technology is used to assure that the logical block addressing on a SSD does not always
address the same physical blocks, in order to distribute write operations? - Answers Wear
Leveling
Which type of removable storage media can provide up to 2 TB of storage? - Answers SDXC
What two optical disc drive standards support writing discs with a total capacity of 8.5GB? -
Answers DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL
What command can be used to make sure that the hard drive does not have bad sectors? -
Answers chkdsk
In an SSD drive, flash memory is stored on ______________________________ (EEPROM) chips
inside the drive housing. - Answers electronically erasable programmable read-only memory
Which type of RAID volume is used for fault tolerance and only requires two drives? - Answers
RAID 1
With ______________________, you can connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running.
- Answers hot-swapping
What two different file systems can be used on a Compact Disc (CD)? - Answers UDF, CDFS
What type of RAID is a combination of mirroring and striping? - Answers RAID 10
What process writes sector markings to a magnetic hard drive? - Answers low-level formatting
Which file system is used by small-capacity USB flash drives and memory cards? - Answers FAT
A SATA data cable has how many pins? - Answers 7 pins
Data is organized on a magnetic hard drive in __________ circles, called tracks. Each track is
divided into segments called __________. - Answers concentric, sectors
The SATA drive technology utilizes a serial data path. - Answers True
Scenario:
This morning when Paul turned on his computer at work, it would not boot.
Instead, Paul reported that he heard a loud clicking noise coming from inside his computer.
What might be the problem with Paul's computer? - Answers Magnetic hard drive failed