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How does an OS communicate to the CPU that it wants to access data on a hard drive?
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Advantages of drive formatting?
Access to the data on disk is faster.
What are theReasons for a faster hard disk drive?
You can access data faster.
What do I need to know about data recorvery hard drives?
A data recovery hard drive is a hard drive that periodically saves data in reserves. It is easy to access if anything goes wrong.
Which of the following technologies provides the slowest random access to data?
usb drive
Does the hard drive lose its data when power is removed?
Random Access memory (RAM). It only holds data while the computer is powered up.
What is used to store instructions and data when they are not being used in memory?
Hard drive. Data is pulled from the drive and stored into the memory for quick access.
What does the cache(8 meg) mean or do for a for a hard drive?
The cache size is refers to the size of buffer on the hard drive. The bigger the the buffer, the less the hard drive has to access the drive. Also it improves the time that the computer needs to access data from the drive.
What causes a clicking or grinding sound when a computer tries to access data?
Your hard drive. If this is happening your hard drive is already dead. Back up your most important data NOW and get a new hard drive.
Is the ability of a device to jump directly to the requested data?
Grabbing data? That would be reading data from a hard drive. However, there is also a hard-drive cache which is much more faster, however the data must already be processed for this to be possible.
What are seeds and leeches?
seeds means the resource or a person who have the particular data user searching for and leeches means the user who wants to gain access of the data the seed have
What is the primary function of a drive lock?
To prevent unauthorized access to data in case of theft or physical tampering.
How does block mode give faster access to a hard drive?
# transfers data from multiple sectors at once
