EXERCISE ON STORAGE DEVICES

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. This is a must-do-group-task
2. You are required to attempt ALL questions
3. This exercise is based on storage devices sub-topic
4. The submission deadline is December 28, 2023 before 15:00 HOURS
5. Submission mode: Through this email, “classict1102@gmail.com”

QUESTION-1

An average of 350 document files with an average size of 2MB each and 155
audio music files of 6420KB each were stored into 2GB USB flash disk. What
would be the size of free space in MB?

QUESTION-2

Suppose you have a research document with 21449 words, an ICT 101
assignment with 150 lines where each line has got 16 words. You also have
music audios and videos with a total of 8704 MB in size.
REQUIRED:
a) Find the total size of all the documents in GB
b) Suggest the size of USB flash drive that is needed to store all your
documents

QUESTION-3

You bought a CD-R with storage capacity of 700MB for the purpose of keeping
your favorite music audios. You managed to keep music files with total size of
500 MB. The next day you realized you had an extra free space of 200 MB and
wanted to use it adding more audios and delete others. Is there any possibility
for you to do such a thing? If YES how and if NO why?
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QUESTION-4

Shadrack wants to purchase USB flash drive for keeping his favorite music and
some other files. He expects to keep 150 mp3 music files with an average size
of 3481600 bytes each. He also expects to store an average of 200 document
files with an average size of 2MB each, 97 video files of average size 73.6 MB
each. The available USB flash drives are of 1GB, 2GB and 4GB. Which one
would you advise him to take?

QUESTION-5

In a 500 GB SSD, 252GB of its space is used. How many megabytes are there
as free spaces? What are the approximate bytes used?

QUESTION-6

a) Convert the values (i) and (ii) to megabytes and values (iii) and (iv) to
gigabytes. (i) 35700 Bytes (ii) 0.5 GB (iii) 1 TB (iv) 10486750 KB
b) Convert the following into bits (i) 800bytes (ii) 128KB (iii) 1MB
c) Convert the following into bytes (i) 20KB (ii) 12MB (iii) 5GB (iv) 1TB (v)
1PB

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