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 How do you calculate the total capacity of a disk?
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A 2-sided high-density disk contains 80 tracks and 18 sectors per trak with 512bytes per sector. How do you calculate the total capacity of the disk?



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ASKED: September 14, 2009  6:33 PM
UPDATED: November 5, 2011  12:15 AM
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What do you get when you multiply 2 * 80 * 18 * 512? 1474560 ========== The best way to determine the exact capacity of the hard disk drive is to open its properties and you can see the space used and available space in your hard disk drive.
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Wow, Pghann, it took 6.8 billion people 13 months to do this computation.

philpl1jb
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With 7 billion people in the world and 26 months of hard work we have two answer for this trival question!

philpl1jb
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And the second “answer” is for a hard drive.

Tom

TomLiotta
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