Given the following characteristics for a disk pack with 10 platters yielding 18 recordable surfaces:
Rotational Speed = 10 ms
Transfer Rate = 0.1 ms/track
Density per Track = 19,000 bytes
Number of Records Stored = 200,000 records
Size of Record = 160 bytes
Block Size = 10 logical records
Tracks per Surface = 500
Find the following:
a. Number of blocks per track
b. Waste per track
c. Number of tracks required to store the entire file
d. Total waste to store the entire file
e. Time to write all of the blocks (Use rotational speed; ignore the time it takes to move to the next track.)
f. Time to write all of the records if they're not blocked (Use rotational speed; ignore the time it takes to move to the next track.)
g. Optimal blocking factor to minimize waste
h. What would be the answer to (e) is the time it takes to move to the next track were 5 ms?
i. What would be the answer to (f) is the time it takes to move to the next track were 5 ms?