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What ratio of sectors per cluster in a floppy disk?
what does CHS stand for in forensics
What are floppy disks divided into?
Floppy disk has tracks and sectors.
How many sectors per track does a floppy disk have?
17 sectors
Tracks and sectors in floppy disk?
80
What is a disk cluster?
A disk cluster is a location on a disk's surface that stores data. Most disks are divided into platters/cylinders, tracks, and sectors, and sectors are grouped into clusters when formatted with a file system.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a small number of sectors per disk cluster?
The advantage with a smaller number of sectors per cluster, is that you get more efficient usage (less wasted space) on the disk. The disadvantage is that the disk directory (or FAT) gets very large and may slow things down
Is the smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file and is made up of one or more sectors?
cluster
What is floppy disk slot?
a floppy disk slot is what you put the floppy disk in on a CPU
What are sectors divided into?
A sector is the lowest allocation unit in hard disk drives. It can make up into clusters which can be as small as 2 sectors or as much as 4 sectors. Of course this is by no means a conclusive definition of a cluster as disk sizes grow exponentially and newer filesystems are developed to accomodate.
Why does operating system use cluster instead of sector?
Clusters and sectors relate to storage areas on a disk - not the operating system.
What exactly is a cluster as a unit of computer disk space?
As described here, the smallest unit of space on the hard disk that any software can access is the sector, which contains 512 bytes. It is possible to have an allocation system for the disk where each file is assigned as many individual sectors as it needs. For example, a 1 MB file would require approximately 2,048 individual sectors to store its data. Under the FAT file system (and in fact, most file systems) individual sectors are not used. There are several performance reasons for this. It can get cumbersome to manage the disk when files are broken into 512-byte pieces. A 2 GB disk volume using 512 byte sectors managed individually would contain over 4 million individual sectors, and keeping track of this many pieces of information is time- and resource-consuming. Some operating systems do allocate space to files by the sector, but they require some advanced intelligence to do this properly. FAT was designed many years ago and is a simple file system, and is not capable of managing individual sectors. What FAT does instead is to group sectors into larger blocks that are called clusters, or allocation units. The cluster size is determined primarily by the size of the disk volume: generally speaking, larger volumes use larger cluster sizes. For hard disk volumes, each cluster ranges in size from 4 sectors (2,048 bytes) to 64 sectors (32,768 bytes). Floppy disks use much smaller clusters, and in some cases use a cluster of size of just 1 sector. The sectors in a cluster are continuous, so each cluster is a continuous block of space on the disk. Cluster sizing (and hence partition or volume size, since they are directly related) has an important impact on performance and disk utilization. The cluster size is determined when the disk volume is partitioned. Certain utilities (like Partition Magic) can alter the cluster size of an existing partition (within limits) but for the mostpart, once the partition size is selected it is fixed. Every file must be allocated an integer number of clusters--a cluster is the smallest unit of disk space that can be allocated to a file, which is why clusters are often called allocation units. This means that if a volume uses clusters that contain 8,192 bytes, an 8,000 byte file uses one cluster (8,192 bytes on the disk) but a 9,000 byte file uses two clusters (16,384 bytes on the disk). This is why cluster size is so important in making sure you maximize the efficient use of the disk--larger cluster sizes result in more wasted space. answer courtesy of: storageview.com (author Charles M. Kozierok)Author
does a floppy disk hold information?
A floppy disk DRIVE can read, erase and save information on a floppy disk. The disk can't do it by himself.
