A marine research vessel uses an on-board data logging server equipped with a magnetic Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to record high-frequency oceanographic measurements. Over the course of a six-month voyage, old telemetry logs are continuously pruned, updated, and overwritten. The on-board technician notes that retrieving scientific data from the drive has become significantly slower and diagnoses the HDD as being heavily fragmented.
Explain how the data logger's hard disk drive became fragmented over time.
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.