a) Which would you choose to yield the best performance improvement for the least amount of money?   b) Which option would you choose if you don't care about the money, but want a faster system?

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Suppose the daytime processing load consists of 70% CPU activity and 30% disk activity. Your customers are complaining that the system is slow. After doing some research, you have learned that you can upgrade your disks to 2.5 times as fast as they are currently for $5,000 or you can upgrade your CPU to make it 1.5 as fast for $8000.  
a) Which would you choose to yield the best performance improvement for the least amount of money?  
b) Which option would you choose if you don't care about the money, but want a faster system? 

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