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Consider a drive that states: LBA = 976,562,500. Demonstrate, in writing, how you would calculate the total capacity of this drive both as defined by hard drive manufacturers and by computer science. Assume a sector size of 512 bytes.

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  1. 27 August, 19:07
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    I guess the correct answer is 465.66 GB

    Solution,

    1024x1024x1024 = 1073741824 Bytes per gigabyte

    976562500x512 = 500,000,000,000

    500,000,000,000/1073741824 = 465.66 GB
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