SG0-001 · Question #376
For which of the following would SATA disks be MOST appropriate?
The correct answer is B. Archival data. SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) disks are most appropriate for archival data storage due to their large capacity and lower cost per gigabyte, making them cost-effective for infrequently accessed data.
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For which of the following would SATA disks be MOST appropriate?
Options
- AEmail operations
- BArchival data
- CDatabase operations
- DVirtualization
How the community answered
(39 responses)- A5% (2)
- B90% (35)
- C3% (1)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) disks are most appropriate for archival data storage due to their large capacity and lower cost per gigabyte, making them cost-effective for infrequently accessed data.
Email operations, especially on active mail servers, typically require high I/O performance and low latency, which are better served by SAS or NVMe drives.
SATA disks offer high storage capacities at a significantly lower cost per gigabyte compared to higher-performance alternatives like SAS or NVMe drives, making them ideal for storing archival data or other large datasets that do not demand extremely high I/O performance or low latency.
Database operations, particularly for transactional databases, demand very high I/O performance, low latency, and often high reliability, which are best provided by SAS or NVMe SSDs.
Virtualization environments often host multiple virtual machines with diverse and demanding I/O profiles, requiring high-performance storage solutions like SAS or NVMe SSDs to ensure optimal VM performance.
Concept tested: SATA disk use cases for data storage
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/storage/disks-types
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