LAB 6 - Hard Drive Sizes
Performance ObjectivesUpon completion of this assignment, the student will be able to recognize a hard drive, the type of connection, and drive specifications on a computer.
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NotesCalculating the Size of a Hard Drive...
cylinders x heads x sectors x 512 bytes = () /1024 to convert to kilobytes =() /1024 to convert to megabytes Example:Manufacturers make drives in what is known as a decimal size, where Kilo = 1000 So for the example take a 10Gb drive which has 10,000,000,000 bytes. But a binary Kilobyte has 1024,Bytes, so you have to divide 10,000,000,000 by 1024 ... 10,000,000,000 Bytes ÷ 1024 = 9765625,Kb 9765625,Kb ÷ 1024 = 9536,7431640625,Mb (9536,74Mb) 9536,7431640625Mb ÷ 1024 = 9,31Gb (If the manufacturers had made a 10Gb drive with 10737418240,Bytes you would have a full 10Gb) |