Question

Most hard drives are divided into sectors of 512 bytes each. Our disk has a size of 16 GB. Fill in the blank to calculate how many sectors the disk has and sector amount

Answer 1

Answer:

33554432

Explanation:

disk_size = 16*1024*1024*1024

sector_size = 512

sector_amount = disk_size/sector_size=33554432.0

Answer 2

The Disk has 33554432 sectors.

Given:

One Sector = 512 bytes

Size of disk = 16 Gb

To Find:

Number of Sectors and Sector Amount

Solution:

For Finding the number of sectors,

The Size of the disk should be divided by the one sector's size.

Firstly the disk size should be converted into the units of bytes,

                        $16~Gb=16*1024*1024*1024~bytes$

Now,

                     Number of sectors = $\frac{16*1024*1024*1024}{512}$

                                                     $=16*1024*1024*2\\=33554432$

So, the Disk has 33554432 sectors in it.

And, the sector amount is the number of sectors present in the disk.