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Download Solution PDF________ is the other name for concentric circles on the platter of hard disk.
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Tracks.
- Tracks are the other name for concentric circles on the platter of the hard disk. A disk drive track is a circular path on the surface of a disk or diskette on which information is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information is read.
- A track is a physical division of data in a disk drive, as used in the Cylinder-Head-Record (CHR) addressing mode of a CKD disk. The concept is concentric, through the physical platters, being a data circle per each cylinder of the whole disk drive.
- In other words, the number of tracks on a single surface in the drive exactly equals the number of cylinders of the drive.
- A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk is a data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.
- The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and write data to the platter surfaces
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