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Disks are like snowflakes: no two are alike

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HotOS'13: Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on Hot topics in operating systems

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Published: 09 May 2011 Publication History

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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.

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