What is the name that describes the grouping of sectors on a hard drive?
A) Cluster
B) Bunch
C) Track
D) Segment
E) Gaggle
The answer: A) Cluster
To optimize the overhead of managing such a huge amount of space, hard drives combine individual sectors together into groups called clusters.
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