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2007
13 years 10 months ago
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
It is estimated that over 90% of all new information produced in the world is being stored on magnetic media, most of it on hard disk drives. Despite their importance, there is re...
Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz Andr&e...
FAST
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1, 000, 000 Hours Mean to You?
Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. In this paper, we presen...
Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Disk Scrubbing in Large Archival Storage Systems
Large archival storage systems experience long periods of idleness broken up by rare data accesses. In such systems, disks may remain powered off for long periods of time. These s...
Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Da...
VLDB
1998
ACM
180views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
14 years 22 days ago
Active Storage for Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia
The increasing performance and decreasing cost of processors and memory are causing system intelligence to move into peripherals from the CPU. Storage system designers are using t...
Erik Riedel, Garth A. Gibson, Christos Faloutsos
MM
1997
ACM
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14 years 22 days ago
Continuous Display Using Heterogeneous Disk-Subsystems
A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a larg...
Roger Zimmermann, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh