What's means "accesses/s" in statistics?

[skb]

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I'm trying to figure out this answer to this question.
I thought of accesses being 512 byte sectors, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Can any one elaborate on this? If it's straight from iostat, then without the request size, it's hard to figure out. It would be far better to have the speed of the operation over the number of requests IF we cannot have both.

Don't need to say sorry we want to know this mechanism.
A lot of admin want to measuring of system performance from like this graph to using open-e more efficiency with limited resources. But now is relative values.

[enealDC]

No takers on this guys? Low hanging fruit here begging to be picked

[Gr-R]

In order to read the raw disk speed you need to convert the KB to MB/S, each sector is 512 bytes, and 512 bytes equal 0.5 KB.

[skb]

In order to read the raw disk speed you need to convert the KB to MB/S, each sector is 512 bytes, and 512 bytes equal 0.5 KB.

Thanks for your help.