On-line extraction of SCSI disk drive parameters
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
An Analysis of Error Behaviour in a Large Storage System
An Analysis of Error Behaviour in a Large Storage System
What is the future of disk drives, death or rebirth?
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Towards reliable storage systems
Towards reliable storage systems
Ffsck: The Fast File-System Checker
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Ffsck: the fast file system checker
FAST'13 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies
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This paper sets out to clear up a misconception prominent in the storage community today, that SCSI disc drives and IDE (ATA) disc drives are the same technology internally, and differ only in their external interface and in their suggested retail price. The two classes of drives represent two different product lines aimed at two different markets. In fact, both classes contain a range of products that address a variety of features and usage patterns beyond simply the interface used to talk to the device. The target market and final product specification are taken into account from the earliest design decision through the manufacturing and testing process. This paper attempts to clarify the differences by illuminating some of these design choices and their consequences on final device characteristics. This will hopefully allow the community to build better storage systems with better knowledge of the trade-offs being made and the performance characteristics that result.