MINDTAP COMPUTING FOR ANDREWS' A+ GUIDE
MINDTAP COMPUTING FOR ANDREWS' A+ GUIDE
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781305944558
Author: ANDREWS
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 1, Problem 7RTB

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Given:

Hard drives and motherboard

To find: The technology standards which are used for the hard drives in order to interface it with the motherboard in a system.

Solution:

The motherboard which is generally known as the main board. It is a type of circuit board in the computer with a socket to hold the processor or CPU.

A hard drive is basically a device which is used to store the data and programs in a computer.

There are two standards published by the ANSI: SATA and PATA

SATA is known as the serial ATA...

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