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.
Practise OCR GCSE Computer Science Utility software with exam-style questions for GCSE Computer Science. 12 questions, matched to the OCR GCSE Computer Science (J277) specification and written in Component 01 and Component 02 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.