What are some of the components of a disk drive?

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: Following is a list of disk drive components:
* Geometry—Geometry refers to a disk’s logical structure of platters, tracks, and sectors.
* Head—The head is the device that reads and writes data to a drive. There are two heads per platter that read and write the top and bottom sides.
* Tracks—Tracks are concentric circles on a disk platter where data is located.
* Cylinders—A cylinder is a column of tracks on two or more disk platters. Typically, each platter has two surfaces: top and bottom.
* Sectors—A sector is a section on a track, usually made up of 512 bytes.

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