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| A ring or circle on the surface of a disk where data can be written |
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| A metal plate coated with a magnetic metal oxide on which data is stored |
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| A pair of electromagnets positioned on an actuator arm which moves back and forth over the surface of hard drive platters |
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| A destructive event that occurs when a read/write head touches the surface of the hard drive platter over which it floats |
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| The number of magnetic recording surfaces on a single platter |
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| A stack of same-numbered tracks across all the platters in a hard drive |
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| A pie-slice shaped wedge of a track |
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| The small data arc formed by the intersection of a track and a sector |
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| The smallest allocatable portion of a hard drive that consists of one or more track sectors |
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| The amount of storage in a single track sector |
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| Unit in which rotational speed is measured |
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| Amount of time it takes the read/write head to be positioned over the first cylinder that contains a desired file |
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| Amount of time it takes the first cluster that contains a desired file to rotate under the read/write head |
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| Amount of time it takes to copy data from clusters on the hard drive RAM |
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| The total time it takes to locate data on a hard drive and copy it to RAM |
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| Unit in which access time is measured |
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| The most common rotational speed for installed hard drives |
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| The unit(s) in which hard drive capacity is measured |
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| Hard drive jumper setting that identifies the first (usually bootable) drive in a pair on an IDE ribbon cable |
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| Hard drive jumper setting that identifies the second(possibly bootable) drive in a pair on an IDE ribbon cable |
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| When a hard drive is jumpered as cable select, how is its master/slave designation determined? |
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| by its position on the ribbon cable - master on the end, slave in the middle |
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| What voltages are provided by a Molex connector? |
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| The name of the power connector for an ATA hard drive |
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| When connecting a ribbon cable to a hard drive, to which pin should the stripe be aligned? |
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| When connecting a ribbon cable to the motherboard, to which pin should the stripe be aligned? |
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| Maximum length for a PATA ribbon cable |
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| The maximum number of PATA hard drives that can be connected to a single IDE/EIDE motherboard connector |
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| The maximum number of SATA hard drives that can be connected to a single SATA motherboard connector |
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| The number of pins in an IDE/EIDE ribbon cable (two answers) |
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| A device that can be changed out or replaced while the computer is turned on is said to be ___. |
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| Maximum length for a SATA ribbon cable |
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| The maximum number of 16-bit devices in a SCSI daisy chain (including the SCSI controller) |
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| Process by which the last device in a SCSI daisy chain is identified |
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| Storage devices comprised of EEPROM chips used in memory cards, flash drives, and portable devices |
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| List three advantages and one disadvantage to the use of solid state storage devices |
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| Advantages - lightweight, faster than traditional storage devices (because they are all electronic), less susceptible to damage. Disadvantage - more expensive per byte |
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| A logical section of a physical drive |
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| Table of contents that identifies the location of a file on a drive |
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| This code takes over for the BIOS during bootup and loads the operating system into RAM |
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| Location of the master boot record on a bootable drive |
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| Provides a directory of all partitions created on one physical drive |
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| Maximum number of partitions on a single physical drive |
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| four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition |
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| This type of disk is characterized by the presence of a master boot record and a partition table |
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| This type of drive is created in an extended partition |
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| Drive letter assigned to the bootable partition |
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| Drive letters reserved for the first and second diskette drive |
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| This type of partition is bootable |
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| This type of partition is not bootable and can be used for application and data storage only |
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| This type of disk has the ability to assign a single drive letter to up to 32 physical disks |
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| FAT is an acronym for ___. |
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| This file system will support partitions of 2.1 GB or smaller |
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| This file system will support partitions of up to 2 TB |
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| This file system will support partitions of of up to 16 TB |
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| The only PC file system that supports built-in compression, disk quotas, and file- and folder-level security |
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| NTFS is an acronym for ___. |
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| New Technology File System |
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| RAID is an acronym for ___. |
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| Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
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| This level of RAID splits files between drives and provides no redundancy |
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| This level of RAID is also known as Disk Striping |
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| This level of RAID duplicates files on each of two drives |
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| This level of RAID is also known as Disk Mirroring and Disk Duplexing |
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| This level of RAID distributes files and parity information evenly across all drives |
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| This level of RAID is also known as Disk Striping with Distributed Parity |
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| This level of RAID represents the most common implementation |
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| This level of RAID duplicates parity information on two different drives |
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| Utility that rewrites disk files in contiguous clusters to improve read/write efficiency |
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| This occurs when files are written to noncontiguous clusters |
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| Utility that removes unneeded files like .TMP files, temporary Internet files, Recycle Bin files, and downloaded program files (like JAVA applets) |
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| Utility that displays information about physical and logical drives |
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| This utility locates and marks bad clusters on a hard drive; identifies and tries to fix invalid file names; identifies and erases lost chains |
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| Name three symptoms of a failing/failed hard drive |
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| unexpected sounds including squeals, clicks, and grinding; drives that disappear from My Computer/Computer; No Boot Device Present error |
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| IDE is an acronym for ___. |
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| Integrated Drive Electronics |
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| SATA is an acronym for ___. |
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| Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
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| PATA is an acronym for ___. |
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| Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment |
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| MBR is an acronym for ___. |
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