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HP2-H36 · Question #55

You are talking to your customer about SAS, SATA, and e SATA technologies. Which topic are you discussing?

The correct answer is D. disk drive interface support. SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), SATA (Serial ATA), and eSATA (external SATA) are all disk drive interface standards - protocols and connectors that define how storage drives communicate with a motherboard or controller, making D correct. A is wrong because these are storage…

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Question

You are talking to your customer about SAS, SATA, and e SATA technologies. Which topic are you discussing?

Options

  • Amemory performance
  • Btypes of display support
  • Chigh performance cables
  • Ddisk drive interface support

How the community answered

(51 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    92% (47)

Explanation

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), SATA (Serial ATA), and eSATA (external SATA) are all disk drive interface standards - protocols and connectors that define how storage drives communicate with a motherboard or controller, making D correct.

  • A is wrong because these are storage interface standards, not RAM or cache technologies like DDR5 or LPDDR.
  • B is wrong because display interfaces are things like HDMI, DisplayPort, and VGA - entirely different hardware.
  • C is wrong because while these technologies do involve physical cables, their defining purpose is the interface protocol for connecting drives, not cable performance ratings like Cat6 or fiber optics.

Memory tip: Think "SATA = Storage Attached To Anything" - the word Attached is a hint that these are about connecting (interfacing) drives. SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) makes it even more explicit.

Topics

#SAS#SATA#eSATA#disk drive interface

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