Answer the Following Questions

question 1

Essay

Answer the following questions:
(a) What is the average time to read or write a 512-byte sector for a typical disk rotating at 7200 RPM? The advertised average seek time is 8ms, the transfer rate is 20MB/sec, and the controller overhead is 2ms. Assume that the disk is idle so that there is no waiting time.
(b) A program repeatedly performs a three-step process: It reads in a 4-KB block of data from disk, does some processing on that data, and then writes out the result as another 4-KB block elsewhere on the disk. Each block is contiguous and randomly located on a single track on the disk. The disk drive rotates at 7200RPM, has an average seek time of 8ms, and has a transfer rate of 20MB/sec. The controller overhead is 2ms. No other program is using the disk or processor, and there is no overlapping of disk operation with processing. The processing step takes 20 million clock cycles, and
the clock rate is 400MHz. What is the overall speed of the system in blocks processed per second assuming no other overhead?

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