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and quiz games: Hard Drive Basics "The hard drive is a critical
component in a computer system. This is a quiz on some hard
drive trivia. Good luck and enjoy!" 15 Points Per Correct Answer
- No time limit The first hard disks, created in the 1950s,
could be up to 20 inches in diameter. Which company invented the
hard disk? When purchasing a hard disk which of these is
generally NOT a specification that would be of concern? Inside
the hard disk drive, where is the data actually stored? When a
user formats a disk, they are generally performing a high-level
format which prepares the drive to hold data. When a low-level
format is performed, how does it divide the platter? read and
write bits and bytes sectors and tracks kilobytes and megabytes
Which of these is disk interfaces was the precursor to SCSI
(Small Computer System Interface)? Hard drive failure rates are
measured with MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures). Which of these
failures would be reaso