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The total number of ____ on the drive determines the drive capacity
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sectors
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He top and bottom of each disk of a magnetic hard drive have a(n) ____ that moves across the disk surface as all the disks rotate on a spindle.
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read/write head
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____ transfers data directly from the drive to memory without involving the CPU.
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DMA
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The first sector on the disk, called the boot sector or ____ record, contains the information about how the disk is organized and the file system used
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boot
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If you are mounting a hard drive into a bay that is too large, a ____ kit can help you securely fit the drive into the bay.
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universal bay
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____ is a standard for communication between a subsystem of peripheral devices and the system bus.
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SCSI
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A drive ____ is a duplication of everything written to a hard drive.
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image
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During the ____ formatting process, you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.
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high-level
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Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive is called ____.
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ReadyDrive
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With ____, two hard drives are configured as a single volume
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spanning
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____ on a circuit board inside the drive housing is responsible for writing and reading data to these tracks and sectors and for keeping track of where everything is stored on the drive.
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Firmware
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The ATA interface standards are developed by Technical Committee T13 and published by ____.
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ANSI
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When using an 80-conductor cable-select cable, the drive nearest the motherboard is the ____.
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master
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A ____ drive has one, two, or more platters, or disks, that stack together and spin in unison inside a sealed metal housing that contains firmware to control reading and writing data to the drive and to communicate with the motherboard.
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Magnetic hard
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With ____, you can connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running.
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hot-swapping
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