Honors Computer Science Name

CHAPTER 1 Date Practice Workbook 1-1

1) a. Exactly how many bytes are on a 40GB hard disk drive?

b. How many bits are on the same drive?

c. How many type-written characters of data can be stored on the drive?

2) Exactly how many microseconds are in one second?

3) If a computer takes 100ns to execute one instruction, how many instructions can it execute in 1
second?

4) If a disk drive can read one sector in 25 milliseconds, how many sectors can it read in one second?

5) My computer has an 80GB hard drive and 512MB of RAM. How many times more space is on my
hard drive?

6) A 3 ½” floppy disk holds 1.44MB of data. My flash drive holds 256MB of data. Approximately how
many floppy drives can fit onto my flash drive?

7) a. What’s faster: a millisecond or a nanosecond?

b. How much faster?

8) If my computer can write 1 sector (512 bytes = ½ KB) to my hard disk in 10 milliseconds, how long
will it take to completely fill a 40GB hard disk drive if it continually writes sectors to the disk?