Question: Consider a hard disk drive with 3 platters. Each platter has two recording surfaces ( top and bottom ) . Each surface has 1 0

Consider a hard disk drive with 3 platters. Each platter has two recording surfaces (top and bottom). Each surface has 100,000 tracks and each track holds 2000 sectors of 4K bytes each. The disk rotates at 10,000 RPM. Assume the disk has a data transfer bandwidth of 100MB/sec. Note that a block is the unit of data transfer between disk and main memory. Each block may contain a number of sectors. Here we assume there is only one sector per block. (Note also that traditionally the sector size is 512 bytes, although 4KB is now more commonly used.) In addition, we assume that the time it takes the head to move n tracks is 1+0.0001n milliseconds.

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