Reading Assignment 8: Storage Systems

Mandatory papers to read:

• C. Ruemmler and J. Wilkes, An introduction to disk drive modeling, IEEE Computer, March, 1994.
• N. Agrawal, V. Prabhakaran, T. Wobber, J.D. Davis, M. Manasse, R. Panigrahy, Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance, USENIX 2008 Annual Technical Conference
• M. Mesnier, J.B. Akers, F. Chen, T. Luo, Differentiated Storage Services, SOSP ‘11: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

Read all of the papers listed above and select two of the papers to write a report for.

Due date for your report: November 7, 2025. No deadline extensions are possible. Bring your printed report to the lecture.

Detailed instructions can be found here.