a. Known that a disk drive has 256 cylinders, with the number cylinder starts at 0 and ends at 255. The needle position on the disk drive currently stops at point 128. It is also known that the needle is always “to the cylinder with the higher number” small first." The order of the positions visited sequentially is: 254, 64, 32, 100, 50, 70.  Of the 3 choices of algorithms below, which one is the best algorithm? Make each one the image and specify seektime. i. SCAN ii. C-SCAN iii. FIFO   b. Sky Connectiva Company has 300 branches all over the world Indonesian archipelago, therefore the company decided to build a RAID system on the Sky Connectiva system database. You are asked to analyze: i. What is the difference between mirroring, parallel access, and independent access? ii. If the company can only have a maximum of 3 disks, and the information must spread over all those disks, what RAID would you suggest?

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a. Known that a disk drive has 256 cylinders, with the number cylinder starts at 0 and ends at 255. The needle position on the disk drive currently stops at point 128. It is also known that the needle is always “to the cylinder with the higher number” small first." The order of the positions visited sequentially is: 254, 64, 32, 100, 50, 70. 

Of the 3 choices of algorithms below, which one is the best algorithm? Make each one the image and specify seektime.
i. SCAN
ii. C-SCAN
iii. FIFO
 
b. Sky Connectiva Company has 300 branches all over the world Indonesian archipelago, therefore the company decided to build a RAID system on the Sky Connectiva system database. You are asked to analyze:
i. What is the difference between mirroring, parallel access, and independent access?
ii. If the company can only have a maximum of 3 disks, and the information must spread over all those disks, what RAID would you suggest?
 
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