Answered! The MEGATRON 777 disk has the following characteristics: 50 platters, 100 surfaces…

The MEGATRON 777 disk has the following characteristics:

50 platters, 100 surfaces

10,000 tracks

500 sectors/track

512 bytes/sector

10,000 rpm

Seek time = 1ms to access any track and 1ms to move 1000 tracks

Calculate the following parameters.

a) The total capacity of the disk.

b) The average seek time.

c) The average rotational latency.

d) The transfer time of a block (1 block = 1 sector).

e) The average time for accessing 10 continuous blocks in one track on the disk.

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