COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
WHAT IS A HARD DRIVE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -noun. : the length of time it takes for a disk drive to locate a given piece of information on a disk.
Detailed explanation-2: -The correct answer is Seek time. Seek time is the time taken for a hard disk controller to locate a specific piece of stored data.
Detailed explanation-3: -Seek Time is the time need for the head to move from its current track to the one where the data is present, Even after this it might have to wait for some more time because the data is present in the opposite side of the track and this delay is called Rotational Latency but this isn’t counted in Seek Time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Seek Time is defined as the time required by the read/write head to move from one track to another.