Practice - Determine the number of sectors per track for a hard disk.
Practice Questions
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What is a sector?
💡 Hint: Think of this as a small parcel of data.
How many bytes are typically in one sector?
💡 Hint: This is the standard size.
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What is the capacity of a single sector typically?
💡 Hint: Think about standard sizes used in storage.
True or False: A track is a single circular path on a hard disk.
💡 Hint: Recall the geometry of disk surfaces.
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Challenge Problems
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Engineer a hard disk with 3 MB total storage capacity, 512 bytes per sector. How many sectors would it contain?
💡 Hint: Convert MB to bytes before dividing.
If a disk has 1,200 sectors and needs data compressed to save space, what would the new number of sectors be if compression reduces required storage by 30%?
💡 Hint: Calculate 30% of 1,200 first.
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