Imagine That You Are Proposing a New Disk IO Benchmark

question 5

Essay

Imagine that you are proposing a new disk IO benchmark for transaction processing, what sort of experiments would you perform to show that your benchmark's results are meaningful. Imagine that you are reviewing a paper introducing a new disk IO benchmark for transaction processing. What sort of subtle flaws would you search for?

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