Research Article

An Effective Cache Algorithm for Heterogeneous Storage Systems

Table 2

We model different performance of disks based on IBM 9LZX manufactured in progressively order years.

Age (years) Bandwidth (MB/s) Seek avg. (ms) Rotation avg. (ms)

0 20.0 5.30 3.00
1 14.3 5.89 3.33
2 10.2 6.54 3.69
3 7.29 7.27 4.11
4 5.21 8.08 4.56
5 3.72 8.98 5.07
6 2.66 9.97 5.63
7 1.90 11.1 6.26
8 1.36 12.3 6.96
9 0.97 13.7 7.73
10 0.69 15.2 8.59