Consider a magnetic drive with 8 surfaces, 512 tracks per surface, and 64 sectors per track. The area size is 1 kB. The average seek time is 8 ms, the track access time is 1.5 ms, and the drive spins at 3600 rpm. Can read consecutive tracks in a cylinder without head movement. 

How much disk space? 

What is the average access time? 

Assume this file is stored in consecutive arcs and tracks of successive cylinders, starting at sector 0, track 0, of cylinder i. 

Estimated time required to transfer a 5MB file. What is the continuous baud rate?

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