Floppy Disks
How
do you compute a disk’s storage capacity?
p. 354 Fig. 7-9
Next
ØMultiply
number of sides, number of tracks, number of sectors per track, and number of bytes per sector
§For high-density disk: 2 sides ´ 80 tracks ´ 18
sectors per track ´ 512 bytes per sector = 1,474,560 bytes
Characteristics of
a
3.5-inch High-Density
Floppy Disk
3.5-inch High-Density
Floppy Disk
Capacity: 1.44 MB
Sides: 2
Tracks: 80
Sectors per track: 512
Sectors per disk: 2880
