Q&A

1:List four types of connecting technologies used in storage subsystems.
2:Name two types of device redundancy.
3:True or false: Disk drives can have only a single connecting port.
4:How is battery backup used in a subsystem?
5:True or false: Temperature is never a problem for disk subsystems.
6:What form of device redundancy does not increase capacity?
7:Name two ways in which performance can be boosted in disk subsystems.
8:What is the difference between hot swapping and hot sparing?
9:Explain the difference between a subsystem and an array.
10:True or false: LUN masking blocks I/Os.

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