29. Suppose a disk drive has the following characteristics: 1. Five surfaces 2. 1,024 tracks per surface

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29. Suppose a disk drive has the following characteristics:

1. Five surfaces 2. 1,024 tracks per surface 3. 256 sectors per track 4. 512 bytes/sector 5. Track-to-track seek time of 8ms 6. Rotational speed of 7,500rpm 1.

a) What is the capacity of the drive?

2.

b) What is the access time?

3.

c) Is this disk faster than the one described in Exercise 28? Explain.

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