Multiple Choice
Disk scheduling algorithms are designed to minimize ________ and/or ________, depending on the system's requests.
A) seek time, rotational latency
B) seek latency, rotational time
C) request rate, turnaround time
D) none of the above
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Q12: Today's hard disks exhibit seek times that
Q13: Access time is defined as _ plus
Q14: RAID level 1 _.<br>A) uses mirroring<br>B) can
Q15: _ caching flushes data to disk immediately,
Q17: Compression can improve disk performance at the
Q18: Maximizing _and minimizing _can lead to increased
Q19: RAID relies on units of data called
Q20: Partitioning a drive can potentially _ fragmentation.<br>A)
Q21: Scheduling strategies are commonly evaluated by the