Answers (in bold) to our TR Dojo pop quiz on traditional hard disk drive types:
1. Which of the following hard disk drive interface standards was developed from Western Digital’s Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) interface?
ATA/PATA
SATA
SAS
2. Which of the following hard disk drive types typically uses a 7-pin data connector?
ATA/PATA
SATA
SCSI
3. Which of the following hard disk drive types typically uses a traditional 40-pin data connector attached to a ribbon cable?
ATA/PATA
SATA
SCSI
4. Which of the following hard disk drive types typically uses a 68-pin or 80-pin data connector?
ATA/PATA
SATA
SCSI
5. Which of the following hard disk drive types uses a variety of physical data connectors, including 7-pin, 26-pin, 32-pin, and 36-pin?
ATA/PATA
SATA
SAS
6. Which of the following hard disk drive types uses a 15-pin power connector?
SAS
SATA
SCSI
7. Which of the following hard disk drive types has a theoretical maximum data transfer rate of 133MB per second?
ATA/PATA
SATA
SAS
8. Which of the following hard disk drive types has a theoretical maximum data transfer rate of 600MB per second?
ATA/PATA
SATA
SCSI
9. Which of the following hard disk drive types has a theoretical maximum data transfer rate of 640MB per second?
SCSI
SATA
SAS
10. Which of the following hard disk drive types transfers data in parallel?
ATA/PATA
SATA
SAS
