Secondary Memory · Computer Organization · GATE CSE

Marks 1

A cache memory that has a hit rate of 0.8 has an access latency 10 ns and miss penalty 100 ns. An optimization is done on the cache to reduce the miss rate. However, the optimization results in an increase of cache access latency to 15 ns, whereas the miss penalty is not affected. The minimum hit rate (rounded off to two decimal places) needed after the optimization such that it should not increase the average memory access time is _________.

GATE CSE 2022

Marks 2

A disk of size 512 M bytes is divided into blocks of 64 K bytes. A file is stored in the disk using linked allocation. In linked allocation, each data block reserves 4 bytes to store the pointer to the next data block. The link part of the last data block contains a NULL pointer (also of 4 bytes). Suppose a file of 1 M bytes needs to be stored in the disk. Assume, $1 \mathrm{~K}=2^{10}$ and $1 \mathrm{M}=2^{20}$. The amount of space in bytes that will be wasted due to internal fragmentation is ________ . (Answer in integer)

GATE CSE 2025 Set 1

Consider a 512 GB hard disk with 32 storage surfaces. There are 4096 sectors per track and each sector holds 1024 bytes of data. The number of cylinders in the hard disk is ______

GATE CSE 2024 Set 1

Consider a disk pack with a seek time of 4 milliseconds and rotational speed of 10000 rotations per minute (RPM). It has 600 sectors per track and each sector can store 512 bytes of data. Consider a file stored in the disk. The file contains 2000 sectors. Assume that every sector access necessitates a seek, and the average rotational latency for accessing each sector is half of the time for one complete rotation. The total time (in milliseconds) needed to read the entire file is ____________.

GATE CSE 2015 Set 1

Consider a typical disk that rotates at $$15000$$ rotations per minute $$(RPM)$$ and has a transfer rate of $$50 \times {10^6}\,\,\,bytes/\sec .$$ If the average seek time of the disk is twice the average rotational delay and the controller’s transfer time is $$10$$ times the disk transfer time, the average time (in milliseconds) to read or write a $$512$$-byte sector of the disk is ______________________.

GATE CSE 2015 Set 2