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An organization is deploying a new business application in their environment. The new application requires 1TB of storage space for business and application data. During peak workload, applicationis expected to generate 4900 IOPS (I/O per second) with typical I/O size of 4KB.
The available disk drive option is 15,000 rpm drive with 100 GB capacity. Other specification of the drives are:
Av. Seek time = 5 millisecond and data transfer rate = 40MB/sec.
You are asked to calculate the required number of disk drives that can meet both capacity and performance requirements of an application.
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