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In one rotation, how many sectors are passed over and how many tracks are passed over?
If you know the average value of sectors per track for a hard drive, how do you use this to estimate the number of cylinders?
Do all modern hard drives have 63 sectors per track? Are there any hard drives that have more than this?
Please refrain from asking the same question in 3 different ways. Especially when a perfectly legitimate answer was given already http://superuser.com/questions/107704/hard-drive-bytes-per-sector/107714#107714 (see page 9) If you do not get an acceptable answer consider editing your original question with more details or adding a bounty(http://superuser.com/faq).
– heavyd – 2010-02-11T21:44:13.5301@heavyd: actually his 3 questions are all related, but separate, questions. they're all closely related enough that they could have been posted as one question, though, so perhaps the best thing to do is close 2 and edit the last to include the others. – quack quixote – 2010-02-11T22:41:31.847
See this set of 6 closely related questions: http://superuser.com/questions/119446/sectors-and-clusters http://superuser.com/questions/119051/transfer-time-for-a-file http://superuser.com/questions/107723/hard-drive-sectors-vs-tracks http://superuser.com/questions/119048/number-of-tracks http://superuser.com/questions/119026/rotational-latency http://superuser.com/questions/119030/bytes-per-track
– Jonathan Leffler – 2010-03-16T11:07:55.383And http://superuser.com/questions/120461/transfer-time-of-a-cylinder
– Jonathan Leffler – 2010-03-16T11:13:18.257and http://superuser.com/questions/120489/sectors-per-track
– quack quixote – 2010-05-06T07:22:35.723