CHAPTER 11Hard Drive Technologies

In this chapter, you will learn how to

• Explain how hard drives work

• Identify and explain the PATA and SATA hard drive interfaces

• Identify and explain the SCSI hard drive interfaces

• Describe how to protect data with RAID

• Install hard drives

• Configure CMOS and install drivers

• Troubleshoot hard drive installation

Of all the hardware on a PC, none gets more attention—or gives more anguish—than the hard drive. There’s a good reason for this: if the hard drive breaks, you lose data. As you probably know, when the data goes, you have to redo work or restore from a backup—or worse. It’s good to worry about the data, because the data runs the office, maintains the payrolls, and stores the e-mail. This level ...

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