If the disk is rotating at 360 rpm, determine the effective data transfer rate…

1995

If the disk is rotating at 360 rpm, determine the effective data transfer rate in kbps, which is defined as the number of bytes transferred per second between disk and memory. (Track size = 512 bytes)

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Disk speed = 360 rpm = 6 rotations per second
( since 360 ÷ 60 = 6 )

In one rotation, data transferred = 512 bytes

So,
Data transfer rate = 6 × 512 = 3072 bytes/second

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