Why would an improvement of only ten percent occur

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In our discussion of the physical aspects of disk performance, we stated that replacing 7200 RPM disks with 10,000 RPM disks can bring a 10% to 50% performance improvement. Why would an improvement of only 10% occur? Could it be that no improvement at all would occur? Explain.

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