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Storage Systems
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Storage Systems

by Alexander Thomasian
October 2021
Intermediate to advanced
746 pages
44h 42m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 7: Saving power in disks, flash memories, and servers

Abstract

Power consumption is a major problem for server and storage clouds. We start the discussion with disk spindown in notebooks to increase battery lifetimes. Server energy can be saved by lowering voltage and in the case of disks by lowering RPMs and spindown. Massive Arrays of Independent Disks - MAID paradigm spins down most disks, but leaves a few disk spinning for caching recently accessed data and for new updates. Hybrid disks with a flash memory or NonVolatile RAM - NVRAM cache to hold updates can be spundown to save energy, since flash memories with no mechanical parts consume less energy than disks. Power consumption can be reduced by temporal and spatial clustering of ...

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