five minutes rules - the price of one access of disc I/O
This is very interesting topic , they use following formula to compute access interval time: BreakEvenIntervalinSeconds = (PagesPerMBofRAM / AccessesPerSecondPerDisk) × (PricePerDiskDrive / PricePerMBofRAM). It is derived using formulas for the cost of RAM to hold a page in the buffer pool and the cost of a (fractional) disk to perform I/O every time a page is needed , equating these two costs, and solving the equation for the interval between accesses. so the cost of disc I/O per access is PricePerDiskDrive / AccessesPerSecondPerDisk , My question is why disc I/O cost per access is computed