CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

International General Certificate of Secondary Education

MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2013 series

0417 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGY
0417/22 Paper 2 (Practical Test A), maximum raw mark 80

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Name, candidate number, Centre number Header: Candidate details 1 mark Full file path and candidates file name
Filename and path 1 mark

Building a Crazy but Cool Computer

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Text italicised, centre aligned 1 mark Underscored, right aligned 1 mark Choosing your storage by: name
This is the third of our articles on building your “Crazy but Cool” You will like the SATA connections as each drive has its own cable and
computer. It may only be a fantasy, but in the first two articles we your motherboard will have plenty of connectors. No need any more for
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explored choosing a motherboard and CPU for a maximum speed gaming those ribbon connectors and daisy chaining your devices! There is
machine. Then we looked at cases and power supplies. This week we another choice you will have to make. SATA2 is being replaced by SATA3
consider storage devices. – twice as fast data transfer! So, will you look for a SATA3 drive as your
motherboard
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Get lots of storage
Use an SSD for the OS
You have already, perhaps, a
good size hard disk, but on For your main storage you will probably use a mechanical hard drive
examining it you see that its which writes data to a series of “platters” and has a moving read/write
connection is a parallel ATA head. There is nothing wrong with these devices, but for speed you
system and your new might be thinking of Subheads
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motherboard only supports serial have no moving parts, so are more robust in moving environments such
ATA connections. You “only” had as laptops or tablets. They are also very fast as they use flash memory.
a 500gb drive and now you think The disadvantage of them is that they are much more expensive than
that as this was getting pretty full mechanical hard disk drives.
you will need at least a terabyte of storage. If you are seriously gaming Body text:
or streaming video you may find even this gets full soon. This may seem One choice you might make is to use a small capacity SSD1tomark
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So, why not go all out for solid state storage? One reason is that even in the loss of data on both disks. You will need to make sure you have
this fantasy world of building a crazy but cool machine there are limits to regular backups of your data.
finance and two 512gb SSD drives will probably cost more than the rest RAID1 configuration mirrors the data on two discs. This gives the security
of the project together. Another reason is that currently SSDs are said to of automatic backup as all data is recorded on both discs and if one disc
slow down rapidly when they have made a lot of writes to the disk. fails, the other can take over.
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 For speed and security, RAID10 combines both striped and mirrored data
plan to use a small SSD for the operating system and programs, and a using four disks. This now sounds a bit excessive for our gaming machine,
mechanical hard disk drive for data storage. but you might consider a pair of SSDs in RAID0 for your operating
Here are examples of the cheapest storage devices per GB in our list. system.

Drives you might consider

Type of Model Capacity Price Price_Per_GB
drive
HDD Samsung Spinpoint 2000 €129.99 €0.06
SSD Corsair Force 120 €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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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 60 €83.99

Happy building! Next week we will examine options for a graphic card.
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Internal SATA storage devices
Type Code Model Connection RPM Interface Gb_s Capacity Size Price Stock_item Price_per_GB
HDD 973001 Seagate Barracuda Internal 7200 SATA 6.0 500 3.5 €79.99 Yes €0.16
HDD 973002 Hitachi Deskstar Internal 7200 SATA 3.0 1000 3.5 €89.98 Yes €0.09
HDD 973003 Samsung Spinpoint Sort Type ascending
Internal 5400 SATA 3.0 1000 2.5 €99.99 Yes €0.10
and Code ascending 1 mark
HDD 973004 Samsung Spinpoint Internal 5400 SATA 3.0 2000 3.5 €129.99 Yes €0.06
HDD 973006 Samsung Spinpoint Internal 7200 SATA 3.0 1000 3.5 €99.99 Yes €0.10
HDD 973007 Samsung Spinpoint Internal 5400 SATA 3.0 250 2.5 €54.99 Yes €0.22
HDD 973008 Samsung Spinpoint Internal SATA 3.0 160 2.5 €49.99 Yes €0.31
HDD 973009 Hitachi DeskStarRecord added 1 mark
Internal 7200 SATA 6.0 2000Price_per_GB
3.5 €159.99calculated
Yes 2 marks€0.08
HDD 973010 Hitachi TravelStar Internal 5400 SATA 3.0 500 2.5 €69.99 Yes €0.14
HDD 973063 Hitachi UltraStar Internal 10000 SATA 6.0 850 3.5 €459.99 Yes €0.54
SSD 973022 Kingston HyperX Internal N/A SATA 6.0 120 2.5 €149.98 Yes €1.25
SSD 973023 OCZ Vertex Internal N/A SATA 6.0 120 2.5 €144.98 Yes €1.21
SSD 973024 Corsair Force Internal N/A SATA 6.0 120 2.5 €122.98 Yes €1.02
SSD 973025 OCZ Agility Internal N/A SATA 6.0 120 2.5 €129.99 Yes €1.08
SSD 973026 Samsung 830 Internal N/A
Select Connection SATA1 mark
is Internal 6.0 128 2.5 €164.98 Yes €1.29
SSD 973027 Samsung 830 Internal InterfaceN/A
is SATA SATA1 mark 6.0 64 2.5 €89.99 Yes €1.41
SSD 973028 OCZ Vertex Internal Stock_item
N/A is Yes SATA1 mark 6.0 60 2.5 €83.99 Yes €1.40
SSD 973029 Samsung 830 Internal N/A SATA 6.0 256 2.5 €319.99 Yes €1.25
SSD 973030 Kingston SSDNow Internal N/A SATA 6.0 Required480 2.5labels
data and €679.96
all visible Yes1 mark €1.42
SSD 973031 OCZ Octane Internal N/A SATA 6.0 Landscape
512 2.5 €669.99 Yes1 mark €1.31
SSD 973032 Crucial m4 Internal N/A SATA 6.0 One page wide 2.5
512 €649.99 Yes1 mark €1.27

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Type Code Model Connection RPM Interface Gb_s Capacity Size Price Stock_item Price_per_GB
SSD 973033 Samsung 830 Internal N/A SATA 6.0 512 2.5 €629.98 Yes €1.23
SSD 973037 OCZ Agility Internal N/A SATA 6.0 480 2.5 €559.99 Yes €1.17
SSD 973038 Crucial m4 Internal N/A SATA 6.0 512 2.5 €559.99 Yes €1.09
SSD 973040 Intel 320 Internal N/ARecord added
SATA
1 mark 6.0 300 2.5 €392.98 Yes €1.31
SSD 973041 Kingston HyperX Internal N/A SATA 6.0 240 2.5 €384.99 Yes €1.60
SSD 973062 Samsung 830 Internal N/A SATA 6.0 256 2.5 €389.99 Yes €1.52
SSD 973064 Intel 320 Internal N/A SATA 6.0 512 2.5 €639.99 Yes €1.25
Name, candidate number, centre number Average price per GB for all drives €0.89
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Some of the fastest SSD drives

Model Connection Type Interface Gb_s Capacity Price Stock_item
Kingston SSDNow Internal SSD SATA 6.0 480 €679.96 Yes
OCZ Octane Internal SSD SATA 6.0 512 €669.99 Yes
Crucial m4 Internal SSD SATA 6.0 512 €649.99 Yes
Intel 320 Internal
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SATA 6.0 512 €639.99 Yes
Samsung 830 Internal SSD SATA 6.0 512 €629.98 Yes
Crucial m4 Internal SSD SATA 6.0 512 €559.99 Yes
OCZ Agility Internal SSD SATA 6.0 480 €559.99 Yes
Intel 320 Internal SSD SATA 6.0 300 €392.98 Yes
Samsung 830 Internal SSD SATA 6.0 256 €389.99 Yes
Kingston HyperX Internal SSD SATA 6.0 240 €384.99 Yes
Samsung 830 Internal SSD SATA 6.0 256 €319.99 Yes
Samsung 830 Internal SSD SATA 6.0 128 €164.98 Yes
Kingston HyperX Internal SSD SATA 6.0 120 €149.98 Yes
OCZ Vertex Internal SSD SATA 6.0 120 €144.98 Yes
OCZ Agility Internal SSD SATA 6.0 120 €129.99 Yes
Corsair Force Internal SSD SATA 6.0 120 €122.98 Yes
Samsung 830 Internal SSD SATA 6.0 64 €89.99 Yes
OCZ Vertex Internal SSD SATA 6.0 60 €83.99 Yes

List SSD
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SSD and 6 Gb_s 1 mark Sort Price descending 1 mark

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EVIDENCE DOCUMENT

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