chapter 8
Mass Storage Technologies
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
—ARTHUR C. CLARKE
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 ...
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