Research Article

A Stochastic Analysis of Hard Disk Drives

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Predicted average access time compared to simulated access time using a real-world request stream. Size and location of memory requests were taken from a web server trace, and interarrival times were randomized to simulate Poisson arrivals under a range of system loads.
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