Internet Discovery

Questions:

Use the Internet to answer the following questions. Write the answers and the URL of the site where you found the information. Assume you have just purchased a Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200 RPM 6Gb/s hard drive in answering Questions 13.

1. What types of cables are needed for this drive? Do they come with the drive? Write the answers and the URL where you found this information.

2. How much cache does this drive have?

3. If the computer does not have an available SATA connector, what one recommendation could you make?

4. A customer has a Western Digital WD3200AAKB Caviar Blue PATA hard drive. What are the possible jumper settings for this drive? Write the answer and the URL where you found this information.

[ Single | Master | Slave | Cable Select | Dual (Master) | Dual (Slave) | Slave Present ]

5. Based on the same drive as in Question 4 and information you learned in this chapter, if a customer had a drive already configured to cable select and wanted you to install the Western Digital drive, what setting must be set on the new drive? [ Single | Master | Slave | Cable Select | Dual (Master) | Dual (Slave) | Slave Present ]

6. Find an eSATA and an internal SATA hard drive that are equal or close to equal in capacity. What is the price difference between the two? Write the answer and the URL where you found this information.

7. How many hard disk drives did the presenter have installed as shown in the Disk Management window?

8. Even though the Disk 1 drive was originally unpartitioned, before the author did anything to the drive, the drive showed as [ 1 | 2 | 3 ] unallocated sections.

9. If the drive has already been partitioned (but doesnt have data on it), what must you do before converting the drive to a GPT disk?

10. List one comment that you found interesting and informative.