Ch5 Questions and Answers correct

Ch5 Questions and Answers correct Your friend has a Lenovo IdeaPad N580 laptop, and the hard drive has failed. Her uncle has offered to give her a working hard drive he no longer needs, the Toshiba MK8009GAH 80-GB 4200-RPM drive. Will this drive fit this laptop? Why or why not? No, the drive form factor and interface do not match. You have four 2.5" hard drives on hand and need a replacement drive for a desktop system. The documentation for the motherboard installed in the system says the board has six SATA 3 Gb/s connectors and one IDE connector. Which of the four hard drives will work in the system and yield the best performance? WD 3.5" 7200-RPM SATA 3.0 HDD You are setting up a RAID system in a server designed for optimum fault tolerance, accuracy, and minimal downtime. Which HDD is best for this system, assuming the motherboard supports it? Hot-swap 3.5" SATA 3.0 10,000-RPM drive You have two matching HDDs in a system, which you plan to configure as a RAID array to improve performance. Which RAID configuration should you use? RAID 0 Which of the following situations allows for data not to be lost in a RAID array? RAID 1 and one hard drive fails A laptop has an SD card slot that no longer reads cards inserted in the slot. Which is the first and best solution to try? The second? 1. Update Windows on the laptop. 2. Download and install the latest drivers from the laptop manufacturer for the card slot. Explain how a DVD manufacturer can advertise that a DVD can hold 4.7 GB, but Explorer reports the DVD capacity as 4,706,074,624 bytes or 4.38 GB. The manufacturer measures capacity in decimal and the OS measures capacity in binary. You discover Event Viewer has been reporting hard drive errors for about one month. What is the first solution you should try to fix the problem? Use the chkdsk command to repair the drive. You install a SATA hard drive and then turn on the computer for the first time. You access BIOS/UEFI setup and see that the drive is not recognized. Which of the following do you do next? Turn off the computer, open the case, and verify that the data cable and power cable are connected correctly. You want to install an SSD in your desktop computer, but the drive is far too narrow to fit snugly into the bays of your computer case. Which of the following do you do? Buy a bay adapter that will allow you to install the narrow drive in a desktop case bay. Why do hard drives tend to slow down over time? a. Drives can reach full capacity, which hinders where data can be written to the drive. b. SSDs must erase a block before a block can be written. c. Magnetic drives take longer when having to read data from noncontiguous locations on the drive. Of the following hard drives, which one is fastest? PCIe NVMe SSD card You install an M.2 SSD card in an M.2 slot on a motherboard. When you boot up the system, you discover the DVD drive no longer works. What are likely causes of this problem? Select two. a. The DVD drive SATA connector is disabled. b. The DVD drive cable is loose or disconnected. Tim has an old server computer that his company uses as a backup. One of the hard drives has gone bad and needs to be replaced. The cable that the hard drive uses is not one that Tim has ever seen before, so he posts a picture of it on the company collaboration board to get help in deciding what type of hard drive he will need to order. SCSI 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? Molex connector Jessica wants to purchase a new hard drive. She wants a drive that has fast access because she will use it to edit videos on her PC. She also needs a lot of storage and wants to have at least 4 TB available to save her videos. Jessica wants to keep the cost down as much as possible possible. What type of hard drive should Jessica purchase? 7200 RPM magnetic HDD When installing a SATA hard drive, is it true or false that you need to move the jumpers on the back of the drive to instruct the computer on which hard drive is the bootable drive? False Keion works as a freelancer creating websites and designing logos for clients. He recently had a hard drive failure and lost work for a client, and he would like to prevent the same type problem from happening again. Keion does not want to rely on a backup but would like a way to ensure that his data is safe on his computer. You recommend that he create a RAID array that will duplicate his work onto two disks.What RAID configuration should you recommend to Keion? RAID 1