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| Blu-ray Disc Recordable Erasable |
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| What does the RW in CD-RW & DVD-RW stand for? |
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| What is the acronym for a rewritable Blu-Ray disc? |
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| CD-ROM, DVD-ROM & BD-ROM can be written to _____ time(s). |
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| zero (cannot be erased & written to) |
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| CD-R, DVD-R, & BD-R can be written to _____ time(s). |
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| CD-RW & DVD-RW can be written to _____ time(s). |
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| Platters of a magnetic hard drive spin at a rate measured in _____. |
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| The capability for replacing computer system components without causing interruption to the system operation is known as _____. |
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| A USB drive is considered a hot-swappable drive. |
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| A PATA drive is considered a hot-swappable drive. |
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| A FireWire drive is considered a hot-swappable drive. |
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| An IDE drive is considered a hot-swappable drive. |
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| A SATA drive is considered a hot-swappable drive. |
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| An eSATA drive is considered a hot-swappable drive. |
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| What does PATA stand for? |
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| Parallel Advanced Technology (AT) Attachment |
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| What does SATA stand for? |
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| Serial Advanced Technology (AT) Attachment |
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| What does eSATA stand for? |
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| External Serial Advanced Technology (AT) Attachment |
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| In the context of drive interfaces, what does IDE stand for? |
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| Integrated Drive Electronics |
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| A type of storage device with no moving parts that uses memory chips instead of magnetic platters is commonly referred to as a _____. |
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| xD-Picture Card is a flash memory card format. |
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| SATA is a flash memory card format. |
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| CompactFlash (CF) is a flash memory card format. |
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| IEEE 1394 is a flash memory card format. |
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| SD is a flash memory card format. |
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| eSATA is a flash memory card format. |
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| What is the name of the proprietary flash memory card format used mainly in older digital cameras? |
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| A hybrid drive provides a combination of which two drive technologies? |
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| The type of media used as a secondary system storage in tablets and mobile phones is known as _____. |
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| What does eMMC stand for? |
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| embedded multi media card |
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| _____ is different from other memory cards because it is not a user-removable card, but rather a permanent attachment to the circuit board |
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| What is PATA also known as? |
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| What does RAID stand for? |
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| Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
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| What is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a single logical unit to increase logical volume size, improve performance, or reliability known as |
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| RAID 1 offers fault tolerance. |
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| Disk duplexing offers fault tolerance. |
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| RAID 0 offers fault tolerance. |
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| Disk mirroring offers fault tolerance. |
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| What is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of some of its components. |
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| RAID Level 0 is also known as disk _____. |
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| RAID Level 0 decreases reliability (failure of any disk in the array destroys the entire array). |
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| RAID Level 0 offers less volume capacity in comparison to RAID 1. |
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| RAID Level 0 requires at least 3 drives to implement. |
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| RAID Level 0 is suitable for systems where performance has higher priority than fault tolerance. |
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| RAID Level 1 requires at least 2 drives to implement. |
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| RAID Level 1 offers improved performance in comparison to RAID 0. |
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| RAID Level 1 offers improved reliability by creating identical data sets on each drive (failure of one drive does not destroy the array as each drive contains identical copy of the data). |
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| RAID Level 1 is also referred to as disk _____. |
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| RAID Level 5 requires at least 2 drives to implement. |
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| RAID Level 5 continues to operate in case of failure of more than 1 drive. |
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| RAID Level 5 requires at least 3 drives to implement. |
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| RAID Level 5 offers increased performance and fault tolerance (single drive failure does not destroy the array and lost data can be re-created by the remaining drives). |
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| RAID Level 5 requires at least 4 drives to implement. |
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| Which RAID type has the highest disk overhead? |
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| What is the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing called? |
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| What is minimum number of drivers required for RAID level 10? |
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| RAID 10 refers to a nested (hybrid) RAID level. |
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| RAID 1+0 refers to a nested (hybrid) RAID level. |
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| RAID 0 refers to a nested (hybrid) RAID level |
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| RAID 1 refers to a nested (hybrid) RAID level. |
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| Which type of RAID level creates a striped set from a series of mirrored drives? |
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| _____ is a Blu-Ray disc can be erased and written to multiple times. |
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| _____ is a Blu-Ray disc can be written to only once. |
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Tape drives have ____ seek times.
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Tape drives have ____ capacity.
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Tape drives are _________ media.
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| Both SATA and eSATA are hot-swappable. |
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| eSata is hot-swappable and SATA is not. |
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| A Blu-Ray disc can hold _____ & _____ (single-layer and double-layer). |
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| A Mini Blu-Ray disc can hold _____ & _____ (single-layer and double-layer). |
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| A double-side DVD disc can hold _____ & _____ (single-layer and double-layer). |
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| A DVD disc can hold _____ & _____ (single-layer and double-layer). |
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| A double-sided MiniDVD disc can hold _____ & _____ (single-layer and double-layer). |
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| A MiniDVD disc can hold _____ & _____ (single-layer and double-layer). |
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| A CD-ROM can hold _____ & a MiniCD can hold _____. |
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