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Consider a disk drive that has a capacity of 8 Gigabytes (assume 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes). If that drive has 5 platters (assume that both sides are used), 10,000 tracks per surface, and an average of 200 sectors per track, how many bytes are in each sector?
400 bytes per sector
8,000,000,000/(2*5*10,000*200) = 400 bytes per sector
