Problem
A magnetic disk drive has the following characteristics: 10,000 rpm spin rate 2 ns head-to-head switching time 3 μs average track-to-track seek time 5 platters, 1024 tracks/platter side recorded on both sides, 50 sectors per track on all tracks Questions:
a. What is this drive s storage capacity?
b. How long will it take to read the drives entire contents sequentially?
c. What is this drive s serial access time?
d. What is this drive s average (random) access time (assuming movement over half the tracks and half the sectors in a track)?