Hard Drives
An NAS drive is a ______ storage device.
dedicated
What are SSDs commonly used in?
Tablets and some mobile devices
RAID 1 is disk _______, and this method does provide fault tolerance by ensuring an exact copy of a drive in case one drive fails.
mirroring
What does IOPS measure?
Input and outputs per second
What lesson number is this Jeopardy on? (Bonus points if you get the name)
Lesson 7 (Storage Devices)
What compact internal storage drive is used for laptops?
SSDs eliminate this number-one cause of hard drive failure:
Moving parts
What is the minimum number of hard drives needed for RAID 10?
4
What causes a beeping sound in hard drives?
A mechanical failure
What command changes one file system to another?
convert
How many motors does a magnetic hard drive have?
2 motors
An M.2 device could cause this component to not work.
PCIe card
What is the biggest pro of RAID 0?
Fast, efficient use
When were we assigned this lesson?
February 20
What do you do if a drive fails to be recognized as a new installation?
Check cabling and BIOS/UEFI settings
What is the primary storage drive for desktop computers?
A 3.5" drive
What does an M.2 slot do?
Allows SSDs ad Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules of various sizes to be connected.
What is the main feature of RAID 5 and how is it used?
Parity, it fixes a drive in case it fails
What is a partition?
The logical part of the hard drive
Name THREE file systems in use.
FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, ReFS, APFS, ext4
What THREE ports can a hard drive be externally attached to?
USB, eSATA, and eSATAp
To use NVMe an SSD is usually mounted on a...
...PCIE card or attached through an M.2
What makes RAID 6 different from RAID 5?
Additional parity that can recover from two failed drives
What are the first three labs of this lesson about? (7.6.1, 7.6.2, 7.9.1)
Connecting an external hard drive, replacing the internal HDD, and converting a basic disk to a dynamic disk
What tool is used for partitioning?
Disk Management