@InProceedings{ganger:load-balance,
  author = {Gregory R. Ganger and Bruce L. Worthington and Robert Y. Hou and
  Yale N. Patt},
  title = {Disk Subsystem Load Balancing: Disk Striping vs. Conventional Data
  Placement},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Hawaii International
  Conference on System Sciences},
  year = {1993},
  volume = {I},
  pages = {40--49},
  keywords = {parallel I/O, disk striping, load balancing, pario-bib},
  comment = {Using trace-driven simulation to compare dynamic load-balancing
  techniques in databases that span several disk drives, with the inherent
  load-balancing of striping. Their traces were from two Oracle databases on
  two different NCR systems. They found that striping, with its essentially
  random block-by-block load balancing, does a better job of avoiding
  short-term load imbalances than the ``manual'' load-balancing does.}
}