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Lecture 10

This lesson discusses measuring drive performance, including average access time, file compression, data transfer rate, and drive interface standards. Average access time is the time for a read/write head to move to a location and is measured in milliseconds, with hard drives having access times of 6-12 ms. File compression shrinks files to take up less disk space. Data transfer rate measures how fast data can move between devices and is measured in kilobytes per second. Common drive interface standards are EIDE and SCSI.

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Lecture 10

This lesson discusses measuring drive performance, including average access time, file compression, data transfer rate, and drive interface standards. Average access time is the time for a read/write head to move to a location and is measured in milliseconds, with hard drives having access times of 6-12 ms. File compression shrinks files to take up less disk space. Data transfer rate measures how fast data can move between devices and is measured in kilobytes per second. Common drive interface standards are EIDE and SCSI.

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lesson 10

Measuring Drive
Performance
This lesson includes the following sections:
• Average Access Time
• File Compression
• Data-Transfer Rate
• Drive-Interface Standards
Average Access Time
• In storage devices, average access time (or seek
time) is the time required for a read/write head to
move to a spot on the storage medium.

• For storage devices, access time is measured in


milliseconds (ms), or thousandths of a second. In
memory, access time is measured in nanoseconds
(ns), or one-billionths of a second.

• Diskette drives offer an average access time of 100


ms. Hard drives are faster, usually between 6 – 12
ms.
Typical Access Times for Memory and Storage Devices

Device Typical Access Time


Static RAM (SRAM) 5-15 ns
Dynamic RAM (DRAM) 50-70 ns
Read only memory (ROM) 55-250 ns
Hard disk drives 6-12 ms
CD ROM drives 80-800 ms
Tape drives 20-500 s
File Compression
• File compression technology shrinks files so they take
up less disk space.
• Using a compression utility, you can shrink multiple
files into a single archive file.

• Utilities such as Windows' DriveSpace enable you to


compress the entire contents of your hard disk.

My archive
Data-Transfer Rate
• Data-transfer rate (or throughput) measures the time
required for data to travel from one device to another.

• If a device transfers 45,000 bytes per second, its data-


transfer rate is 45 KBps.

• Hard disks offer the fastest data-transfer rates of any


storage device.
Hard Disk Fragmentation

One file can end up fragmented


(scattered) over the disk surface.
Hard Disk Fragmentation

This results in multiple head accesses


which degrades performance.
Drive-Interface Standards
• All PCs use a disk controller as an interface between
a disk drive and the CPU. The two most common
interface standards are EIDE and SCSI.

• EIDE has evolved over the years and has several


variants, all of which have different names.

• SCSI is a faster, more flexible drive-interface


standard found in high-performance computers.
lesson 10 Review

• Define average access time and explain how it is


measured.

• Explain why file compression is a factor in drive


performance.

• Define data transfer rate and describe how it is


measured.

• Identify two drive interface standards.


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