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2. Define the following terms (i) Tracks (ii) Cylinder (iii) Sectors (iv) Cluster
Or
2. Explain Tracks, Cylinder, Sectors and Cluster in brief.
Ans.
❖ TRACKS
➔ Each side of the platter surface is divided into concentric circles called tracks.
➔ Each track is identified by its number. The outermost tracks are given track number 0, the next
one 1 and so on. The innermost track has the highest track number.
❖ CYLINDERS
➔ The identically aligned tracks on each side of every platter together make a cylinder.
➔ The data is stored cylinder by cylinder on the disk.
➔ For example first all the tracks or same cylinder is written, once cylinder becomes full the
read/write head moves to the next cylinder for the remaining data.
❖ SECTORS and CLUSTER
➔ The tracks of the platters are further divided into smaller units called sectors.
➔ Each sectors organized into cluster which consists fixed number of bytes (Generally 512 bytes).
➔ Different capacity of the HDD divide tracks into different number of sectors commonly 17 to 100
sectors per track.
CHRIST POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, RAJKOT
Subject:- CMT (3350701) 2 MARKs Q_and A
3. Differentiate Floppy Disk and Hard Disk Drive in brief.
Ans.
SR. NO. FLOPPY DISK DRIVE HARD DISK DRIVE
Floppy contains single plastic Hard disk contains one or more
1.
coated disk. platters.
It can store as small amount of It can store a large amount of data
2.
data. as compare to FDD.
Data access speed of FDD is Data access speed of HDD is
3.
slower than HDD. faster than a FDD.
It is less expensive than hard It is more expensive than floppy
4.
disk. disk.
4. “CD, DVD, Pen drive and Optical Magnetic disk are optical storage devices.” Is this statement
correct? Justify your answer.
Ans.
➔ No above statement is not correct because CDs and DVDs are the optical storage devices but pen –drive
is not optical storage device. Devices such as Pen drives and memory cards are called flash drive
devices.