Flash drives these days seem very small to those of us who were around at the be
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Flash drives these days seem very small to those of us who were around at the beginning of the personal computer revolution. The hand shown in the picture below is holding a drive that can store 32 gigabytes (32 Times 10^9 bytes). Estimate how big a byte is; that is, how much physical volume in the drive has to be devoted to storing the information in 1 Byte? Be sure to clearly state your assumptions and how you came to the numbers you estimated, since grading on this problem will be mostly based on your reasoning, not on your answer. Compare the volume you found in part A with the volume of a mammalian cell. Which has a greater "information density"?Explanation / Answer
=as size varies from one type of drive to other, lets take an average physical size of 24*32*1.44 mm
then volume=0.001106 m^3
hence volume of each byte=total voume/number of bytes
=0.001106/(32*10^9)=3.4562*10^(-14) m^3
a mammalian cell will have volume of approximately 2000 um^3=2000*10^(-18)=2*10^(-15) m^3
hence the mammalian cell has lesser volume.
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