Which one is the hard drive?

Which of these acronyms is a hard drive interface?

A) PCI

B) VGA

C) BIOS

D) SATA

E) MONKEY

The answer: D) SATA

The Serial ATA interface is the only one listed that could be part of a hard drive interface. PCI refers to the Peripheral Component Interconnect bus, VGA is the Video Graphics Array interface, and BIOS is the Basic Input/Output System. MONKEY isn’t really an acronym; it just sounds funny.

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