What is the future of disk drives, death or rebirth?

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Deng, Yuhui ^a  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Architecture; Disk drive; Energy efficiency; Flash memory; Thermal envelope

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER DEMANDS; DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; DISK DRIVE; DISK PERFORMANCE; HIGH RELIABILITY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; POWER CONSUMPTION; STORAGE DEVICES; STORAGE MEDIA; STORAGE SYSTEMS; THERMAL ENVELOPE; TURNING POINTS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLASH MEMORY; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

DRIVES;

EID: 79955670036     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1922649.1922660     Document Type: Article

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