Interface Types

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)