What is the minimum number of disk drives needed to meet the application’s capacity and performance requirements for a RAID 0 configuration?

A company plans to deploy a new application in their environment. The new application requires 2 TB of storage space. During peak workloads, the application is expected to generate 4500 IOPS with a typical I/O size of 4 KB. The capacity of each available disk drive is 250 GB. In addition, the maximum number of IOPS a drive can perform at with a 70% utilization is 90 IOPS.

What is the minimum number of disk drives needed to meet the application’s capacity and performance requirements for a RAID 0 configuration?
A . 8
B . 40
C . 50
D . 70

Answer: C

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