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The Vertical position of all a drive's read/write heads over their corresponding platter on a specific track, forming a vertical cylinder.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoThe cylinder refers to the platter(s) that magnetically holds the data on the tracks which include the sectors.
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A vertical section of track that passes through all platters on a hard disk?
Cylinder
Is a hard disk a hardware or a software?
A computer hard disk or hard drive (fixed disk) is hardware.
What is chs mode?
CHS mode stands for Cylinder-Head-Sector mode, which is a way of addressing and accessing data on a hard disk drive. In CHS mode, data is organized and located on the disk based on a combination of the cylinder number, head number, and sector number. It was commonly used in older computer systems.
What does 'HDD' stand for?
Hard Disk Drive.
What are types of disk drives?
IDE hard disk, SCSI hard disk, SATA hard disk, External hard disk, it is also differ by RPM speed for the HADD. I hope that helpes.
How many types of hard disk?
There are two types of Hard disk. 1:Sea gate disk 2:SATA Hard disk
What is the history of hard disk and the inventor of hard disk?
The history of hard disk is that, hard disk is invented in 1950's that time hard disk size is 20 inche's maximum the name of hard disk inventer is "REY JOHNSON" by the help of IBM team. ""BILAWAL ABBAS""
What are five types of disk drives?
IDE hard disk, SCSI hard disk, SATA hard disk, External hard disk, it is also differ by RPM speed for the HADD. I hope that helpes.
How many different HDD?
1. IDE Hard Disk 2. SATA Hard Disk 3. SCSI Hard Disk 4. Ultra SCSI Hard Disk
Who invented hard disk mirroring?
who invented hard disk?
What is the other name for hard disk in architecture?
It is also known as Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Or Hard Disk Drive.
What is a storage device that contains one or more inflexible circular platters?
it is the hard disk
