Using Two Disk Drives with Replacement Selection

• Replacement Selection offers an opportunity to save on both transmission and seek times in ways that memory sort methods do not.

• We could use one disk drive to do only input operations and the other one to do only output operations.

• This means that:

  • Input and Output can overlap ==> Transmission time can be decreased by up to 50%.
  • Seeking is virtually eliminated.

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