Secondary Memory · Computer Organization · GATE CSE

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...

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 cylinde...

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 eac...

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 ...