Flash disk opportunity for server applications

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Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 18-23

  Gray, Jim ^a   Fitzgerald, Bob ^a  

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Indexed keywords

DISK DRIVES; FLASH DISKS; HIGH-CAPACITY; MAGNETIC DISKS; NON-VOLATILE; SERVER APPLICATIONS;

COLD STORAGE; COSTS; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MAGNETIC STORAGE; NONVOLATILE STORAGE;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 67649641168     PISSN: 15427730     EISSN: 15427749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1413254.1413261     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Hwang, C. 2003. Nanotechnology enables a new memory growth model. Proceedings of the IEEE 91(11): 1765-1771; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/5/27802/01240069.pdf.
2. This Web site (http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html) had a PQI flash disk for $1,800. The marginal cost is about $20 per gigabyte for flash today, so this device might be had for about $600, comparable to the price of a 15,000-RPM SCSI disk.
3. Zushman, J. 2006. Hard drives go flash: Samsung Flash SSD. Tom's Hardware; http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/conventional-hard-drive- obsoletism,1324.html.
4. Nath, S., Kansal, A. Flash DB: Dynamic self-tuning database for NAND flash. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2006-168; ftp://ftp.research. microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2006-168.pdf.
5. Birrell, A., Isard, M., Thacker, C., Wobber, T. 2005. A design for high-performance flash disks. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-176; ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-176.pdf.
6. See reference 5.
7. See reference 5.