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ISTC-CC Abstract
Disks Are Like Snowflakes: No Two Are Alike
13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS 2011).
Elie Krevat*, Joseph Tucek†, and Gregory R. Ganger*
*Carnegie Mellon University
†HP Labs
Gone are the days of homogeneous sets of disks. Even disks of a given batch, of the same make and model, will have significantly different bandwidths. This paper describes the disk technology trends responsible for the now-inherent heterogeneity of multi-disk systems and disk-based clusters, provides measurements quantifying it, and discusses its implications for system designers.
FULL PAPER: pdf
