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Processor type: Intel i7-8550U Processor speed:0 GHz Word size: 64 bits Cache: 8 MB RAM: 16 GB, 2400 MHz access time Hard drive: 2 TB, 17 ms access...

Processor type: Intel i7-8550UProcessor speed: 4.0 GHzWord size: 64 bitsCache: 8 MBRAM: 16 GB, 2400 MHz access timeHard drive: 2 TB, 17 ms access time, 35 MB/s transfer ratePeripherals: External DVD-RW

To simplify calculations, you may assume that 1 megabyte is 1,000,000 (one million) bytes, 1 gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 (one billion) bytes, etc. (or you may use the exact values if you prefer).

Answer the following questions:

  1. If you buy some 4.7 GB DVDs, how many would you need to back up a full hard drive to DVDs (assuming no compression)? At 10 cents per DVD, how much would a full backup cost? At 10 minutes per DVD, how long would a full backup take? 

Now let's see how much stuff that hard drive can hold. Assume you have access to the following information for all 315 million people in the United States:

Name: 40 characters

Phone Number: 10 characters

SSN: 9 characters

taxes owed: one numeric value

  1. Assume that each character is stored in one byte, and that each numeric value is stored in four bytes. Note that all of the values are stored as characters except the taxes owed. As this example illustrates, it is common to store numeric values when planning to perform numeric calculations, and to store characters in other cases (even when those characters are digits rather than letters).
  2. Would all of these data fit on the hard drive of the computer described above? If your answer is yes, what fraction of the disk would this fill? If your answer is no, how big a hard drive would you need? 
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