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Designing computer systems with MEMS-based storage
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FAST '03 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
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Tabular placement of relational data on MEMS-based storage devices
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ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Optimizing MEMS-based storage devices for mobile battery-powered systems
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
Timing-accurate storage emulation
FAST'02 Proceedings of the 1st USENIX conference on File and storage technologies
Using MEMS-based storage in disk arrays
FAST'03 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on File and storage technologies
Optimizing probe-based storage
FAST'03 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on File and storage technologies
MEMS-based storage devices and standard disk interfaces: a square peg in a round hole?
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A new address mapping scheme for high parallelism MEMS-Based storage devices
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MEMS-based storage devices are seen by many as promising alternatives to disk drives. Fabricated using conventional CMOS processes, MEMS-based storage consists of thousands of small, mechanical probe tips that access gigabytes of high-density, nonvolatile magnetic storage. This paper takes a first step towards understanding the performance characteristics of these devices by mapping them onto a disk-like metaphor. Using simulation models based on the mechanics equations governing the devices' operation, this work explores how different physical characteristics (e.g., actuator forces and per-tip data rates) impact the design trade-offs and performance of MEMS-based storage. Overall results indicate that average access times for MEMS-based storage are 6.5 times faster than for a modern disk (1.5 ms vs. 9.7 ms). Results from filesystem and database bench-marks show that this improvement reduces application I/O stall times up to 70%, resulting in overall performance improvements of 3X.