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5.2.5 Practice Questions SATA

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You have a motherboard with 4 built-in SATA connectors. What is the maximum number of SATA devices you can connect to the motherboard using the integrated ports?
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4
Explanation: You can connect one SATA device per port. If you have 4 port, you can connect 4 devices.
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A manager wants you to install a Serial ATA hard drive into his computer, but the motherboard does not have a Serial ATA connector. What should you do?
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Install a Serial ATA host adapter in an expansion slot.
Explanation: To add a feature to a computer, add an expansion card in a free bus slot. In this case, you could add a Serial ATA host adapter in a free PCI slot.
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Which of the following tasks would you complete as part of a SATA installation?
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Plug the 15-pin power connector into the SATA drive.
Explanation: SATA devices use a special 15-pin power connector that supplies 3.3, 5, and 12 volts. Using the 4-pin Molex connector for a SATA device requires an adapter cable. The master setting only applies to IDE drives, and is used to determine the active controller with multiple devices on the same cable channel. Device IDs are used with SCSI devices, not SATA devices. Low-level formatting is done at the factory by the drive manufacturer.
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Which of the following is the most common disk interface used for optical drives on home and office computers?
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SATA
Explanation: Most modern computer systems use SATA optical drives. At one time, IDE/EIDE (ATAPI) optical drives were the most common type of optical drives implemented but this has changed. SCSI was also used at one time but has fallen out of favour for optical drives. In the early 1990's some sound cards provided a proprietary internal connector for ealy CD-ROM drives, but these are now obsolete. Likewise, parallel ports were used in the early 1990's optical drives, but these are also now obsolete.
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Which interface is primarily used for internal hard drives in modern desktop PC systems?
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SATA
Explanation: SATA is primarily used for internal hard drives in modern desktop PC systems. PATA (also called EIDE, IDE, and ATAPI) is a parallel ATA interface and was the most common interface used for hard disks and CD/DVD drives in the past, but not in modern PC systems, USB and Firewire are interface standards for connecting various external devices, including external hard drives. SCSI is commonly used for server storage, but is rarely used for hard disks in modern desktop systems.
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Which generation of SATA storage devices does the following? Supports up to 6 Gbps data transfer rates. Addresses solid state drives.
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SATA3
Explanation: SATA3 support up to 6Gbps (600 MBps). It mainly addresses solid state drives with SATA (hard disk drives are not capable of sending data at this rate). SATA1 is the original SATA standard. It provided for 1.5 Gbps (150 MBps) data transfer. SATA2 supports up to 3 Gbps (300 MBps). eSATA is a subset of other standards specifically for externally connected devices. eSATAp (also known as Power over eSATA or Power eSATA) is meant to replace eSATA. It combines the functionality of an eSATA and a USB port with a source of power in a single connector.
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Which SATA storage device standard does the following? Integrates data and device power into a single cable. Uses a connector and port that are neither L-shaped nor rectangular.
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eSATAp
Explanation: eSATAp (also known as Power over eSATA or Power eSATA) is meant to replace eSATA. It combines the functionality of an eSATA and a USB port with a source of power in a single connectors. It integrates data and device power into a single cable, and the connector and port are neither L-shaped nor rectangular. SATA1 is the original SATA standard. It provided for 1.5 Gbps (150 MBps) data transfer. SATA2 supports up to 3 Gbps (300 MBps). SATA 3 support up to 6 Gbps (600 MBps). It mainly addresses solid state drives with SATA (hard disk drives are not capable of sending data at this rate). eSATA is a subset of other standard specifically for externally connected devices.