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Interface Types

Written by Northwest Data Recovery, LLC. Posted in Data Recovery

Common Hard drive interfaces:

  • 3.5" ATA (IDE, EIDE)
  • Serial ATA (SATA)
  • SCSI
  • 2.5" Laptop drives
  • 1.8" Laptop drives
  • USB external drives
  • CD-R/RW/DVD-R/RW
  • FireWire external drives
  • MP3 player drives

RAID:

  • RAID 0 - Striped disk array
  • RAID 1 - Mirroring and duplexing
  • RAID 2 - Error-correcting coding
  • RAID 3 - Bit-interleaved parity
  • RAID 4 - Dedicated parity drive
  • RAID 5 - Block interleaved distributed parity
  • RAID 6 - Independent data disks with double parity
  • RAID 7 - Adds caching to levels 3 or 4
  • RAID 0+1 - High data transfer performance
  • RAID 10 - High reliability combined with high performance
  • RAID 50 - High I/O rates and data transfer performance

Network Storage:

  • NAS (Network Attached Storage)
  • SAN (Storage Area Network)