Subject
Computer Science
Topic
Computer Fundamental
A disk pack has 32 recording surfaces, 128 tracks per surface, 256 sectors per track, and 1024 bytes per sector. What is its total capacity?
A disk pack has 32 recording surfaces, 128 tracks per surface, 256 sectors per track, and 1024 bytes per sector. What is its total capacity?
a)
128 MiBb)
8 GiBc)
1 MiBd)
1 GiBExplanation
32 × 128 × 256 × 1024 = 2^5 × 2^7 × 2^8 × 2^10 = 2^30 bytes = 1 GiB. This preserves the capacity concept used in the master PDF.Related questions
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