This paper designs a real-time storage server (RTSS) for remote multimedia playback applications. The design goal is to maximize the number of clients which can be serviced simultaneously. RTSS must, however, maintain the continuity of each medium. To satisfy both the design goal and the constraint, we propose a new scheduling scheme called round scheduling to eeectively retrieve multimedia dis...

We make a correction to the calculation of mean seek time in a recent algorithm of intelligently positioned two headed disk systems. We also introduce a new two headed disk system with better mean seek time.

While hard disk space is amazingly "cheap" nowadays, many of us programmers continue to find ourselves working in environments that have significant hard disk constraints. The ’always-ever-increasing-in-size’ data set too quickly eats up the hard disk "real estate" available to us which will give us immediate and direct access to our data. How many of us have found ourselves spending an inordin...

As the most widely used storage device today, hard disks are efficient and convenient, but damage incurred in event of a failure can be very significant. Therefore, early warnings before disk failure, allowing stored content to backed up transferred advance, reduce many losses. In recent years, an endless stream research on prediction has emerged. The detection accuracy various methods, from ba...

The electromechanical design of the HDD (Hard Disk Drive) renders it more susceptible to failures than other components computer system. failure leads permanent data loss, which is typically expensive itself. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) system warns user if any parameter has exceeded predefined threshold value needed for safe operation. Machine learning methods ta...