@InProceedings{cortes:heterogeneous,
  author = {T. Cortes and J. Labarta},
  title = {A Case for Heterogenenous Disk Arrays},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster
  Computing (Cluster'2000)},
  year = {2000},
  month = {November},
  pages = {319--325},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  keywords = {disk array, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Heterogeneous disk arrays are becoming a common configuration in
  many sites and specially in storage area networks (SAN). As new disks have
  different characteristics than old ones, adding new disks or replacing old
  ones ends up in a heterogeneous disk array. Current solutions to this kind of
  arrays do not take advantage of the improved characteristics of the new
  disks. In this paper, we present a block-distribution algorithm that takes
  advantage of these new characteristics and thus improves the performance and
  capacity of heterogeneous disk arrays compared to current solutions.},
  comment = {The technical report associated with this paper can be found at
  ftp://ftp.ac.upc.es/pub/reports/DAC/2000/UPC-DAC-2000-76.ps.Z}
}