Given the drive dimensions as follows and assuming a sector has 512 bytes, what is the capacity of the described hard drive? 22,164 cylinders/disk 80 heads/cylinder 63 sectors/track
Capacity (in bytes) = Number of cylinders × Number of heads × Number of sectors per track × Bytes per sector
Given the drive dimensions:
Number of cylinders/disk = 22164
Number of heads/cylinder = 80
Number of sectors/track = 63
Bytes per sector (standard sector size) = 512 bytes
Plug these values into the formula:
Capacity = 22164 cylinders × 80 heads × 63 sectors/track × 512 bytes/sector
Now, calculate the capacity:
Capacity = 22164 × 80 × 63 × 512 = 57,193,758,720 bytes
To express this capacity in more common units:
1 kilobyte (KB) = 1,024 bytes
1 megabyte (MB) = 1,024 KB
1 gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 MB
So, the capacity of the described hard drive is approximately:
57,193,758,720 bytes ÷ 1,024 B/KB ÷ 1,024 KB/MB ÷ 1,024 MB/GB ≈ 53.26 GB
Using the formula: Capacity = (Number of cylinders) x (Number of heads) x (Number of sectors) x (Sector size)
Converting the number of cylinders, heads, and sectors:
22,164 cylinders/disk = 2^32 - 1 cylinders
80 heads/cylinder = 2^7 heads
63 sectors/track = 2^6 - 1 sectors
Therefore, the capacity of the hard drive is:
(2^32 - 1) x (2^7) x (2^6 - 1) x 512 bytes/sector = 57.27 GB
So the answer is (B) 57.19 GB.
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