Storage Systems: Not Just a Bunch of Disks Anymore

  • Authors:
  • Erik Riedel

  • Affiliations:
  • Seagate Research

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Storage
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The concept of a storage device has changed dramatically from the first magnetic disk drive introduced by the IBM RAMAC in 1956 to today's server rooms with detached and fully networked storage servers. Storage has expanded in both large and small directions - up to multi-terabyte server appliances and down to multi-gigabyte MP3 players that fit in a pocket. All use the same underlying technology - the rotating magnetic disk drive - but they quickly diverge from there.