A new hierarchical disk architecture

IEEE Micro

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 64-76

  Hu, Yiming ^a,b,c,d   Yang, Qing ^{a,c,d,e,f,g,h}  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^g IEEE   (United States)

^h ACM's SIGArch ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; DATA TRANSFER; NONVOLATILE STORAGE;

DISK CACHING DISK (DCD) ARCHITECTURE; HIERARCHICAL DISK ARCHITECTURE; MAGNETIC DISK DRIVES;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0032209113     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/40.743686     Document Type: Article

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