Title: Chapter 6 Supporting Hard Drives and Other Storage Devices
Course: DEPT MC - PERSONAL COMPUTER HARDWARE > Section: Module 2 (Chapter 5, 6, 9, 19)

Learning Objectives

- Discuss technologies used inside a hard drive
- Learn how a computer communicates with a hard drive
- Install and support a hard drive
- Identify and setup different RAID configurations
- Identify tape drives and tape cartridges
- Support optical drives and flash memory devices
- Troubleshoot hard drives
- Demonstrate problem solving with hard drives

1. Read Chapter 6 Supporting Hard Drives
2. Review the Chapter PowerPoint Presentation
3. Watch the video
4. Review TestOut Components 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.9, 5.10
5. Complete the TestOut Lab Activities

  - 5.2.4 Install SATA devices
  - 5.4.5 Create RAID arrays
  - 5.4.6 Implement a RAID solution
  - 5.9.6 Perform Disk Maintenance

- Take the Chapter Review Quiz

Watch this video

MicronTechnology (2015, October 4).How Solid State Drives are Made [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/EZJzLQJMdXs |

Click the " Next " button (bottom-right) to complete the following:

- TestOut Lab Screenshot  Dropbox
- Chapter Review Quiz