1. Name the 2 most popular current power connectors formagnetic hard drives found in
personal computers today
2. Name the 2 most popular current data connectors formagnetic hard drives found in
personal computers today
3. On regular computers and servers (below Mainframes)
a – Name the 2 most commonspeeds for secondary storage
Answer
1. MOLEX, SATA
2. SATA, IDE(PATA)
3. a 5,400rpm, 7,200rpm
IDE(PATA) drive use MOLEX connectors for power
SATA drives use SATA power connector and SATA dataconnector.