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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Mass Storage Technologies

CHAPTER 8

In this chapter, you will learn how to

• Explain how hard drives work

• Identify mass storage interface connections

• Describe how to protect data with RAID

• Describe hard drive installation

Of all the hardware on a PC, none gets more attention—or gives more

anguish—than mass storage drives. There’s a good reason for this: if a drive

breaks, you lose data. As you probably know, when data goes, you have to

redo work, restore from a backup, or worse, just kiss the data goodbye. It’s

good to worry about data, because that data runs the office, maintains the

payrolls, and stores the e-mail.

This chapter focuses on how drives work, beginning with the internal

layout and organization of drives. You’ll look at the different types of drives

used today and how they interface with the PC. The chapter covers how more

than one drive may work with other drives to provide data safety and improve

speed through a feature called RAID. The chapter wraps up with an extensive

discussion on how to install drives properly into a system. Let’s get started.

NOTE Chapter 9, “Implementing Mass Storage,” continues the hard drive

discussion by adding in the operating systems, showing you how to prepare

drives to receive data, and teaching you how to maintain and upgrade drives

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