Practice - Cylinder Concept
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Practice Questions
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What is a cylinder in disk storage?
💡 Hint: Think about how tracks stack across multiple platters.
Explain constant angular velocity.
💡 Hint: Focus on how rotation affects access times.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is a cylinder in disk storage?
💡 Hint: Think about how tracks align vertically.
True or False: Data can be retrieved from inner and outer tracks at the same average time due to constant angular velocity.
💡 Hint: Remember how speed affects retrieval.
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Challenge Problems
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If a disk has 4 platters, each containing 6 tracks with 8 sectors per track, calculate the total sectors available on the disk.
💡 Hint: Multiply the count of platters, tracks, and sectors.
How does bit density vary from the outer track to the inner track, and what benefits does this offer to a data storage system?
💡 Hint: Consider the relationship between circumference and data storage.
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