@InProceedings{uysal:mems,
  author = {Mustafa Uysal and Arif Merchant and Guillermo A. Alvarez},
  title = {Using {MEMS}-based storage in disk arrays},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the USENIX FAST '03 Conference on File and
  Storage Technologies},
  year = {2003},
  month = {April},
  pages = {89--101},
  publisher = {USENIX Association},
  address = {San Francisco, CA},
  URL = {http://www.usenix.org/events/fast03/tech/uysal.html},
  keywords = {mems-based storage, disk arrays, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Current disk arrays, the basic building blocks of
  high-performance storage systems, are built around two memory technologies:
  magnetic disk drives, and non-volatile DRAM caches. Disk latencies are higher
  by six orders of magnitude than non-volatile DRAM access times, but cache
  costs over 1000 times more per byte. A new storage technology based on
  microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) will soon offer a new set of
  performance and cost characteristics that bridge the gap between disk drives
  and the caches. We evaluate potential gains in performance and cost by
  incorporating MEMS-based storage in disk arrays. Our evaluation is based on
  exploring potential placements of MEMS-based storage in a disk array. We used
  detailed disk array simulators to replay I/O traces of real applications for
  the evaluation. We show that replacing disks with MEMS-based storage can
  improve the array performance dramatically, with a cost performance ratio
  several times better than conventional arrays even if MEMS storage costs ten
  times as much as disk. We also demonstrate that hybrid MEMS/disk arrays,
  which cost less than purely MEMS-based arrays, can provide substantial
  improvements in performance and cost/performance over conventional arrays.},
  comment = {Best paper in fast2003.}
}