Practice Individual Tracks And Sector Addressing (31.1.4) - Disk Characteristics
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Individual Tracks and Sector Addressing

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is seek time?

💡 Hint: Think about the movement of the head.

Question 2 Easy

What is a sector?

💡 Hint: Consider how tracks are divided.

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Question 1

What is the primary function of seek time?

To move the head to the correct track
To wait for the disk to spin
To read data from a track

💡 Hint: Consider what happens first when accessing data.

Question 2

True or False: Outer tracks on a disk always have higher bit density than inner tracks.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about how data size relates to track size.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

You are designing a disk with 10 tracks and 32 sectors per track. If each sector can hold 512 bytes, calculate the total storage capacity in megabytes.

💡 Hint: Remember to multiply all the dimensions of your disk.

Challenge 2 Hard

A disk spins at 7200 RPM, and the average seek time is 8ms. Calculate the average rotational delay.

💡 Hint: Convert RPM to time per revolution, then divide by 2 for the average.

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