SMR drive performance analysis under different workload environments

• Main Authors: Niu, Junpeng, Xie, Mingzhou, Xu, Jun, Xie, Lihua, Xia, Li
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; SMR Drive; Queuing Theory
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/140323
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As the main stream of Hard Disk Drive (HDD) techniques, Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives have unique features different from conventional disk drives, e.g., append-only (sequential) write, indirect address mapping and garbage collection. Batch process is also designed to fully utilize the se...