Predicting access times is a crucial part of predicting hard disk drive performance. Existing
approaches use white-box modeling and require intimate knowledge of the internal layout of …

Predicting access times is a crucial part of predicting hard disk drive performance. Existing
approaches use white-box modeling and require intimate knowledge of the internal layout of …

Flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have become a promising alternative to magnetic
Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) thanks to the large improvements in performance, power …

This work presents a tool for storage device profiling named SeRRa. Our tool obtains the
sequential to random throughput ratio for reads and writes of different sizes. Several …

This paper introduces and validates a mathematical hard disk timing model designed for use
in an execution-driven full-system simulator. While very accurate disk simulators and …

We provide a stochastic analysis of hard disk performance, including a closed form solution
for the average access time of a memory request. The model we use covers a wide range of …

One of the most common techniques to evaluate the performance of a computer I/O
subsystem performance has been found on detailed simulation models including specific …

Performance modeling of magnetic disks allows the prediction of the disk service time which
is useful for on-line decision support for soft real-time applications. In this paper, we propose …

The effectiveness of automatic storage management depends on the accuracy of the storage
performance models that are used for making resource allocation decisions. Several …

Novel applications such as micro-blogging and algorithmic trading typically place a very
high load on the underlying storage system. They are characterized by a stream of very short …