Question

Consider a drive that states: LBA = 976,562,500. Demonstrate, in writing, how you would calculate the total capacity of this drive both as defined by hard drive manufacturers and by computer science. Assume a sector size of 512 bytes.

Answer 1

I guess the correct answer is 465.66 GB

Solution,

1024x1024x1024 = 1073741824 Bytes per gigabyte

976562500x512 = 500,000,000,000

500,000,000,000/1073741824 = 465.66 GB