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notes system up and running, freeing up Fairfield administrative time for more customer work,
and reducing overall operational costs.
Panasas ActiveStor includes the patented DirectFlow protocol, a direct access path between
Fairfield’s Linux cluster nodes and their storage, eliminating delays inherent in traditional SAN
and NAS architectures. The additional benefits of this increased efficiency allow Fairfield to take
on and complete more customer projects in a shorter amount of time, improve IT productivity,
and further reduce the overall cost of ownership in their IT infrastructure investments.
The Panasas operating environment featuring PanFSTM parallel file system with its patented
object-based architecture allows Fairfield to maximize application performance and eliminate
storage system complexities. Also, the single global namespace and the parallel reconstruction
capabilities of the solution contribute to superior ease of management.
Questions:
1. What are the problems faced by Fairfield Industries? Explain them briefly.

2. Describe NFS-based storage system.

self assessment
Choose the correct answer:

4. The EIDE interface chip can support ............. devices.
( a) five (b) three
( c) four (d) None of these
5. The USB ................ provides maximum speeds of up to 1.5 MB/s.

( a) version 2.1 (b) version 4.1
( c) version 2.0 (d) None of these
6. FireWire does not provides a single plug-and-socket connection.
( a) True (b) False

7. The PCI stands for ...........................
( a) Peripheral Component Interconnect
( b) Peripheral Computer Interconnect
( c) Peripheral Component Interconnection

( d) None of these
8. The random access memory has a ..............
( a) non-volatile memory (b) volatile memory
( c) rigid memory (d) None of these

9. The DVD can provide ........... pixels per horizontal line.
( a) 720 (b) 740
( c) 710 (d) 870
10. The ADB stands for .....................

( a) Apple Desktop Buffering (b) Apple Desktop Bus
( c) Assemble Desktop Bus (d) None of these

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