A sound engineer uses an external magnetic hard disk drive (HDD) to record and edit multi-track audio projects. Over several months of frequent recording, over-dubbing, and deleting audio takes, they observe that audio playback has begun to stutter, and the drive's activity LED flashes constantly during read operations.
Explain how a defragmentation utility could resolve this issue and improve the performance of the mechanical drive.
11 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Computer Science Utility software. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.