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List of top Operating System Questions on Disk Access Time Calculation - Rotational Latency

Consider a hard disk with a rotational speed of 15000 rpm. The time to move the read/write head from a track to its adjacent track is 1 millisecond. Initially, the head is on track 0. The number of sectors per track is 400. The sector size is 1024 bytes. It is necessary to transfer data from 10 randomly located sectors in each of the following tracks in the order: 5, 12 and 7. The total time for the data transfer (in milliseconds) from the hard disk is _________. (rounded off to one decimal place)
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