Exercise

Enhance your understanding by getting hands-on practice ​with this exercise about hard disk drives!

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Simulator

This exercise uses disk.py to familiarize you with how a modern hard drive works. It has a lot of different options, and unlike most of the other simulations, has a graphical animator (for you to run locally) to show you exactly what happens when the disk is in action.

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