Storage holds the operating system, applications and data when the power is off, and choosing and configuring it is a core technician task. The A+ exam expects you to know the types of drives and how they connect, the form factors and connector keys, the common removable flash formats, and the RAID (redundant array of independent disks) levels, including how many drives each needs and how many failures it survives.
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