Consider a magnetic disk packed with 32 surfaces. Each surface is divided into 128 tracks with 256 sectors per track. If the size of a sector is…

Consider a magnetic disk packed with 32 surfaces. Each surface is divided into 128 tracks with 256 sectors per track. If the size of a sector is 1024 bytes, then what is the total capacity of the disk?

  1. a) 2³⁰ bytes
  2. b) 2³³ bytes
  3. c) 2²⁷ bytes
  4. d) 2²⁰ bytes

From the Combined Bank Senior Officer October 2021 – Preliminary exam, question 8 of 108.

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