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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.
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What is the difference between a drive and a disk?
The difference between a drive and disk is that a drive is used to read a disk whether it be a floppy disk or a compact disk.
What does 'HDD' stand for?
Hard Disk Drive.
What is disk drive?
A disk drive is a device that computers can use to read and write information on computer disk. An example of one is the hard disk drive.
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 another word for hard drive?
a hard drive is called "disque dur" in French.
What group does the local disk drive contain for the hard disk drive?
Local disk c
What are the tree drives on a computer?
Hard drive, Disk drive and FLoppy disk drive
What is a unit that reads and writes onto a disk?
Depending on the format of the disk - A disk-drive, CD-ROM drive or DVD drive.
A flat object that holds computer data?
A disk!
Is disk drive an example of output device?
No a disk drive is neither input or output device, it is an optical disk drive (for CD/DVD's) and a disk drive (for hard drives) would be a storage device.
Your computers Disk Drive is saying Please Insert a Disk into drive E?
That's because it is trying to read drive E:/, but there is no disk in it.
What is chs mode?
Cylinder-Head-Sector (CHS) is a computer access mode that assigns addresses to data on computer hard drives. It was an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive.
