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Where is the obvious place to start when implementing RAID?

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How do you install solid state drives, including installation into a desktop or tower?

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Briefly describe the various SSD memory technologies.

How many failures can RAID 0 withstand and remain functional?

The Disk Management program in Windows Server versions can configure drives for _______________, and it works with PATA or SATA.

What is the minimum number of drives needed to implement RAID 5?

_______________is a disk-optimization feature for SATA drives that enables faster read and write speeds.

Disk striping with parity protects data by adding extra information, called _______________ data, that can be used to rebuild data if one of the drives fails.

What two questions should be considered before installing or replacing an existing HDD with an SSD?

Briefly describe the spindle or rotational speed of a hard drive.

Motherboards provide support for the SATA hard drive controllers via the system BIOS, but they require configuration in _______________ for the specific hard drives attached.

Describe four problems associated with the parallel ATA interface.

PATA drives dominated the industry for more than a decade, but have been replaced by _______________ drives that send data in serial, using only one wire for data transfers.

What are the two elements of hot swapping?

What are the factors that make either software or hardware RAID the best choice?

When installing PATA drives, how do you set the jumpers?

How can you take advantage of eSATA in a desktop or laptop if an external connector does not exist?

Regardless of the external interface, you will find an ordinary SATA drive inside the _______________ (the name used to describe the casing of external hard drives).

The most important advance in SATA involves _______________.

A common SATA numbering method uses the term _______________ for each controller.