Chapter 2: Storage Devices and Power Supplies
1. B. A conventional HDD contains discs called platters, on which data is stored magnetically through read/write heads by way of a magnetic coating.
2. A. A conventional hard disk drive system consists of the hard disk and its often-integrated controller as well as a host adapter to gain access to the rest of the computer system. The drive interface is a common component of the controller and host adapter.
3. D. A fixed number of clusters is supported by each operating system, leading to a corresponding maximum volume size. If the maximum NTFS cluster size of 64KB is used, Windows XP can support a single-volume size of 256TB. When a cluster size of one sector, or 512 bytes (½KB), is used, the maximum ...
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