Q. Time taken by disk arm to move the heads to the cylinder containing the desired sector is called

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Q. Which of the following assures you that the hard drive has failed?

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Q. Algorithm of disk scheduling which selects the request with the least seek time from the current head positions is

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Q. Replacement of a bad block generally is not automatic because

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Q. Storage which has a smallest storage capacity is

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Q. As a storage media, advantage of CD-ROM is

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Q. One terabyte is equals to

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Q. During the recovery cycle from a faliure one

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Q. Term which is used for the disk content that is recorded at the time of manufacturing and cannot be changed or erased by user is

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Q. Program is required for the process of writing to CD-RWs is known as

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Q. Type of device which is 3.5 inch floppy drive is nothing but

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Q. Process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors is called

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Q. Most common type of storage device is

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Q. A piece of data that can be transferred between CPU and backup storage is called

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Q. In fixed head discs, sum of rotational delay and transfer time is equals to

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Q. Backing store that has short access time and consists of no moving parts is classified as

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Q. Unit used to store contents as backup of data for later disc failure is called as

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Q. In hard discs, collection of seek time, transfer time and rotational delay is equal to

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Q. Example of serial access store is

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Q. Type of disc which has storage capacity of 40 megabytes to several megabytes is classified as

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