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, the application is expected to generate 4,900 IOPS (I/O per second) with typical I/O size of 4KB. The available disks are 15,000 rpm drives with 100 GB capacities.

Other specifications of the drives are:

Average Seek time = 5 millisecond

Data transfer rate = 40MB/sec

REQUIRED:
Calculate the required number of disk drives that can meet both capacity and performance requirements for the new business application. Show your work, demonstrating how you arrived at the solution.

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

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