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6. Conclusion

In this paper, we have described a way of designing disk arrays that can flexibly reduce seek and rotational delay in a balanced manner. We have presented a series of analytical models that take into consideration disk and workload characteristics. By incorporating these models and a robust software-based disk head position prediction mechanism, the MimdRAID prototype can deliver latency and throughput results unmatched by conventional approaches.



Xiang Yu
2000-09-11