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Advantages and Disadvantages of Currently Available Technologies and Their Impact on System Performance and Effectiveness

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Introduction
One can also easily see that no other component follows this growth rate.
Memory, RAM and storage are getting cheaper. However, what is not happening is that the performance of the access time and decrease resp. increasing at an exponential pace. Considering the technology of magnetic disk specifically we see that disk density has been improving by about 50% per year, almost quadrupling in three years. Access time has only improved by one-third in 10 years.
Super fast processors and huge memories have to be ‘fed’ and a system is only as fast as it’s slowest component, currently the disk.
In our analysis we shall consider the advantages and disadvantages of currently available technologies and their impact on system …show more content…

ThreadMark). Each have their strength and weaknesses, and it often works well to run both types.
Real-world benchmarks may be as simple as timing how long it takes to copy a file, or they may involve executing complex scripts that perform functions in many different applications. The main advantage of these benchmarks is they measure performance using real applications. this same advantage can also be a limitation, since the performance of one component may be artificially limited by another. For example, we may be interested in disk performance, but a slow video accelerator will slow down a benchmark that has a high proportion of video content. This in turn could affect the workload presented to the disk drives.

Why Benchmark results may not be what we expect
•Mechanical Latencies
The single largest contributor to low performance is the disk drive mechanical overhead. The mechanical overhead consists of drive head seeks and rotational latencies. Rotational latency is the time it takes for a sector on the disk media to rotate to the point under the read/write head. It is inversely proportional to the rotational speed of the disk : the faster the disk spins, the shorter the rotational latency.
•Software and Firmware Overheads
Software overhead is the time it takes for commands to be passed through the operating system and software drivers. Firmware overhead relates to the time it takes for the host adapter and disk drive to process

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