Attempts are made by operating systems to store successive blocks of a file on subsequent disk blocks as much as possible. What is it about magnetic disks that makes this so critical?

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Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of disk write caching?

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Q: What are the benefits and drawbacks of caching disk write operations?

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