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Towards Higher Disk Head Utilization: Extracting "Free" Bandwidth from Busy Disk Drives
Freeblock scheduling is a new approach to utilizing more of disks' potential media bandwidths. By filling rotational latency periods with useful media transfers, 20{50% of a ...
Christopher R. Lumb, Jiri Schindler, Gregory R. Ga...