November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
1504 pages
42h 21m
English
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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Eleventh Edition (Exams 220-1101 & 220-1102), 11th Edition
by Mike Meyers
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CHAPTER 8
Mass Storage Technologies
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 ...
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