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2011
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Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based Solid State Drives
Reliably erasing data from storage media (sanitizing the media) is a critical component of secure data management. While sanitizing entire disks and individual files is well-unde...
Michael Yung Chung Wei, Laura M. Grupp, Frederick ...
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2011
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Exploiting Half-Wits: Smarter Storage for Low-Power Devices
This work analyzes the stochastic behavior of writing to embedded flash memory at voltages lower than recommended by a microcontroller’s specifications to reduce energy consum...
Mastooreh Salajegheh, Yue Wang, Kevin Fu, Anxiao J...
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2011
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Consistent and Durable Data Structures for Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory
The predicted shift to non-volatile, byte-addressable memory (e.g., Phase Change Memory and Memristor), the growth of “big data”, and the subsequent emergence of frameworks su...
Shivaram Venkataraman, Niraj Tolia, Parthasarathy ...
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2011
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CAFTL: A Content-Aware Flash Translation Layer Enhancing the Lifespan of Flash Memory based Solid State Drives
Although Flash Memory based Solid State Drive (SSD) exhibits high performance and low power consumption, a critical concern is its limited lifespan along with the associated relia...
Feng Chen, Tian Luo, Xiaodong Zhang
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2011
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A Study of Practical Deduplication
We collected file system content data from 857 desktop computers at Microsoft over a span of 4 weeks. We analyzed the data to determine the relative efficacy of data deduplication...
Dutch T. Meyer, William J. Bolosky
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2011
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A Scheduling Framework That Makes Any Disk Schedulers Non-Work-Conserving Solely Based on Request Characteristics
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Yuehai Xu, Song Jiang