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.
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.