Practice - Questions on Hard Disk
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Practice Questions
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What does a device driver do?
💡 Hint: Think about what is needed for software to talk to hardware.
Define seek time.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when a hard drive is looking for information.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is a device driver?
💡 Hint: Think about what bridges the software and hardware.
Is data buffering used to enhance data transfer efficiency?
💡 Hint: What happens when there are pauses in data transfer?
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Challenge Problems
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Evaluate how data organization affects the efficiency of data retrieval in hard disks and propose methods to improve it.
💡 Hint: How can data layout influence movement?
Design an experiment to measure the performance difference between two hard disks with differing RPM ratings.
💡 Hint: What variables will you need to test?
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