D) cylinder
Cylinder
A cylinder
hard disk save data on platters. On platters there are tracks and sectors in which the data is saved.
On a single platter this is called a track, on a stack of platters (or a double sided platter) the stack of tracks is called a cylinder.
The center of the turn is called an apex.
The concentric circular bands on a hard disk where data is stored are called tracks. Each track is divided into smaller units called sectors, which are the basic storage units for data. The arrangement of tracks and sectors allows for efficient data retrieval and organization on the disk's platters. The read/write head moves across these tracks to access or store information as needed.
track
A cylinder on a disk drive refers to a set of tracks located at the same position on multiple platters within the drive. When data is written or read, the read/write head moves to a specific cylinder to access the desired information across all platters simultaneously, which enhances data retrieval efficiency. Essentially, a cylinder represents a vertical stack of tracks aligned across the platters, allowing for quicker data access without the need to move the head laterally.
There is the Master Boot Record and a Primary Partition in which can be formatted in NTFS or FAT32. There is also what is called platters on the hard drive which has two sides divided up into what looks like a record -- called tracks, and each track is divided into sectors.
Preserved animal tracks are called trace.
train tracks or a railroad
The distance between the inner edges of the heads of the rails is called the gauge.