CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

International General Certificate of Secondary Education

MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2013 series

0417 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 2 (Practical Test A), maximum raw mark 80

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Building a Crazy but Cool Computer

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Choosing your storage by: name

You will like the SATA connections as each drive has its own cable and
your motherboard will have plenty of connectors. No need any more for
those ribbon connectors and daisy chaining your devices! There is
another choice you will have to make. SATA2 is being replaced by SATA3
twice as fast data transfer! So, will you look for a SATA3 drive as your
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motherboard
supports this?

This is the third of our articles on building your Crazy but Cool
computer. It may only be a fantasy, but in the first two articles we
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explored choosing a motherboard and CPU for a maximum speed gaming
machine. Then we looked at cases and power supplies. This week we
consider storage devices.

Get lots of storage

You have already, perhaps, a

good size hard disk, but on
examining it you see that its
connection is a parallel ATA
system and your new
motherboard only supports serial
ATA connections. You only had
a 500gb drive and now you think
that as this was getting pretty full
you will need at least a terabyte of storage. If you are seriously gaming
or streaming video you may find even this gets full soon. This may seem
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Use an SSD for the OS

For your main storage you will probably use a mechanical hard drive
which writes data to a series of platters and has a moving read/write
head. There is nothing wrong with these devices, but for speed you
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The disadvantage of them is that they are much more expensive than
mechanical hard disk drives.
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So, why not go all out for solid state storage? One reason is that even in
this fantasy world of building a crazy but cool machine there are limits to
finance and two 512gb SSD drives will probably cost more than the rest
of the project together. Another reason is that currently SSDs are said to
slow down rapidly when they have made a lot of writes to the disk.
Controllers are being developed to level the wear and they are now
said to be better at keeping to their original incredible speed. Hence the
plan to use a small SSD for the operating system and programs, and a
mechanical hard disk drive for data storage.
Here are examples of the cheapest storage devices per GB in our list.
Type of
drive
HDD
SSD

Model

Drives you might consider

Capacity Price

Samsung Spinpoint
Corsair Force

2000
120

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the loss of data on both disks. You will need to make sure you have
regular backups of your data.
RAID1 configuration mirrors the data on two discs. This gives the security
of automatic backup as all data is recorded on both discs and if one disc
fails, the other can take over.
For speed and security, RAID10 combines both striped and mirrored data
using four disks. This now sounds a bit excessive for our gaming machine,
but you might consider a pair of SSDs in RAID0 for your operating
system.

Price_Per_GB

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122.98 1.02

You will find some other combinations of hard disk and solid state
technology. Some hybrid hard disk drives include a solid state cache to
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in a RAID configuration. You might combine disks for speed or security or

both. In RAID0, the data is written across two disks as though they were
one. This is called striping. This gives extra speed to
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Here are some fast solid state disk drives that you might consider for the
system:
Model
Type
Gb_s
Capacity
Price
Samsung 830
SSD
6.0
128
164.98
OCZ Agility
SSD
6.0
120
129.99
Corsair Force
SSD
6.0
120
122.98
OCZ Vertex
SSD
6.0
120
144.98
Kingston HyperX SSD
6.0
120
149.98
Samsung 830
SSD
6.0
64
89.99
OCZ Vertex
SSD
6.0
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Happy building! Next week we will examine options for a graphic card.
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Internal SATA storage devices

Type

Code

Model

HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD

973001
973002
973003
973004
973006
973007
973008
973009
973010
973063
973022
973023
973024
973025
973026
973027
973028
973029
973030
973031
973032

Seagate Barracuda
Internal
7200
Hitachi Deskstar
Internal
7200
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Samsung Spinpoint
Internal
5400
and Code ascending 1 mark
Samsung Spinpoint
Internal
5400
Samsung Spinpoint
Internal
7200
Samsung Spinpoint
Internal
5400
Samsung Spinpoint
Internal
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Hitachi TravelStar
Hitachi UltraStar
Kingston HyperX
OCZ Vertex
Corsair Force
OCZ Agility
Samsung 830
Samsung 830
OCZ Vertex
Samsung 830
Kingston SSDNow
OCZ Octane
Crucial m4

Connection

Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal

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SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
SATA
5400
SATA
10000
SATA
N/A
SATA
N/A
SATA
N/A
SATA
N/A
SATA
N/A
SATA1 mark
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is Internal
SATA1 mark
InterfaceN/A
is SATA
Stock_item
is
Yes
N/A
SATA1 mark
N/A
SATA
N/A
SATA
N/A
SATA
N/A
SATA

Gb_s Capacity

Size

Price

Stock_item Price_per_GB

6.0
500 3.5
79.99
Yes
0.16
3.0
1000 3.5
89.98
Yes
0.09
3.0
1000 2.5
99.99
Yes
0.10
3.0
2000 3.5 129.99
Yes
0.06
3.0
1000 3.5
99.99
Yes
0.10
3.0
250 2.5
54.99
Yes
0.22
3.0
160 2.5
49.99
Yes
0.31
6.0
2000Price_per_GB
3.5 159.99
Yes 2 marks0.08
calculated
3.0
500 2.5
69.99
Yes
0.14
6.0
850 3.5 459.99
Yes
0.54
6.0
120 2.5 149.98
Yes
1.25
6.0
120 2.5 144.98
Yes
1.21
6.0
120 2.5 122.98
Yes
1.02
6.0
120 2.5 129.99
Yes
1.08
6.0
128 2.5 164.98
Yes
1.29
6.0
64 2.5
89.99
Yes
1.41
6.0
60 2.5
83.99
Yes
1.40
6.0
256 2.5 319.99
Yes
1.25
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679.96
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6.0 Landscape
512 2.5 669.99
Yes1 mark
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Type

Code

Model

Connection

RPM

SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD

973033
973037
973038
973040
973041
973062
973064

Samsung 830
OCZ Agility
Crucial m4
Intel 320
Kingston HyperX
Samsung 830
Intel 320

Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal
Internal

N/A
SATA
N/A
SATA
N/A
SATA
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N/A
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480
512
300
240
256
512

Size

Price

2.5
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.5

629.98
559.99
559.99
392.98
384.99
389.99
639.99

Stock_item Price_per_GB
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

1.23
1.17
1.09
1.31
1.60
1.52
1.25

Average price per GB for all drives

0.89

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Some of the fastest SSD drives

Model

Connection Type

Kingston SSDNow Internal

OCZ Octane
Internal
Crucial m4
Internal
Eight fields
only
Intel 320
Internal
Samsung 830
Internal
Crucial m4
Internal
OCZ Agility
Internal
Intel 320
Internal
Samsung 830
Internal
Kingston HyperX Internal
Samsung 830
Internal
Samsung 830
Internal
Kingston HyperX Internal
OCZ Vertex
Internal
OCZ Agility
Internal
Corsair Force
Internal
Samsung 830
Internal
OCZ Vertex
Internal

Interface

SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD 1 mark
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SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA
SSD
SATA

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6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0
6.0

480
512
512
512
512
512
480
300
256
240
256
128
120
120
120
120
64
60

Price

Stock_item

679.96
669.99
649.99
639.99
629.98
559.99
559.99
392.98
389.99
384.99
319.99
164.98
149.98
144.98
129.99
122.98
89.99
83.99

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

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