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MASCOTS
2004
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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...
STORAGESS
2006
ACM
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Long-term threats to secure archives
Archival storage systems are designed for a write-once, read-maybe usage model which places an emphasis on the long-term preservation of their data contents. In contrast to tradit...
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller
MSS
2007
IEEE
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Tornado Codes for MAID Archival Storage
This paper examines the application of Tornado Codes, a class of low density parity check (LDPC) erasure codes, to archival storage systems based on massive arrays of idle disks (...
Matthew Woitaszek, Henry M. Tufo