Using Intradisk Parallelism to Build Energy-Efficient Storage Systems

  • Authors:
  • Sudhanva Gurumurthi;Mircea R. Stan;Sriram Sankar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;University of Virginia;Microsoft

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Server storage systems use numerous disks to achieve high performance, thereby consuming a significant amount of power. Intradisk parallelism can significantly reduce such systems' power consumption by letting disk drives exploit parallelism in the I/O request stream. By doing so, it's possible to match, and even surpass, a storage array's performance for these workloads using a single, high-capacity disk drive.