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So I am studying for an up and coming exam, one of the questions involves calculating various disk drive properties. I have spent a fair while researching sample questions and formula but because I'm a bit unsure on what I have come up with I was wondering could you possibly help confirm my formulas / answers?
Information Provided:
Rotation Speed = 6000 RPM
Surfaces = 6
Sector Size = 512 bytes
Sectors / Track = 500 (average)
Tracks / Surfaces = 1,000
Average Seek Time = 8ms
One Track Seek Time = 0.4 ms
Maximum Seek Time = 10ms
Questions:
Calculate the following
(i) The capacity of the disk
(ii) The maximum transfer rate for a single track
(iii) Calculate the amount of cylinder skew needed (in sectors)
(iv) The Maximum transfer rate (in bytes) across cylinders (with cylinder skew)
My Answers:
(i) Sector Size x Sectors per Track x Tracks per Surface x No. of surfaces
512 x 500 x 1000 x 6 = 1,536,000,000 bytes
(ii) Sectors per Track x Sector Size x Rotation Speed per sec
500 x 512 x (6000/60) = 25,600,000 bytes per sec
(iii) (Track to Track seek time / Time for 1 Rotation) x Sectors per Track + 4
(0.4 / 0.1) x 500 + 4 = 24
(iv) Really unsure about this one to be honest, any tips or help would be much appreciated.
I fairly sure a similar question will appear on my paper so it really would be a great help if any of you guys could confirm my formulas and derived answers for this sample question. Also if anyone could provide a bit of help on that last question it would be great.
Thanks.
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Disk utilization % is calculated as disk_time_spent_in_io / elapsed_time . For example, if your disk spends 0.25 seconds performing IO in a 1 second period, then your disk is 25% utilized.
The Disk I/O Rate workspace provides input/output statistics, including the transfer rates, block read rates, and block write rates of your monitored systems. This workspace is comprised of two views. The views are: Disk I/O Rate (table view)
IOPS usage can be simply calculated by knowing the total read and write throughputs (ops) of your disk divided by the time in seconds within that period.
(iv) The Maximum transfer rate (in bytes) across cylinders (with cylinder skew)
500 s/t (1 rpm = 500 sectors) x 512 bytes/sector x 6 (reading across all 6 heads maximum) 1 rotation yields 1536000 bytes across 6 heads you are doing 6000 rpm so that is 6000/60 or 100 rotations per second so, 153,600,000 bytes per second (divide by 1 million is 153.6 megabytes per second)
takes 1/100th of a second or 10ms to read in a track then you need a .4ms shift of the heads to then read the next track. 10.0/10.4 gives you a 96.2 percent effective read rate moving the heads perfectly.
you would be able to read at 96% of the 153.6 or 147.5 Mb/s optimally after the first seek. where 1 Mb = 1,000,000 bytes
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