We recently worked with Dropbox to implement host-managed SMR technology and today announced that they have qualified and are the first to deploy Western Digital’s Ultrastar® Hs14 host-managed SMR hard disk drive (HDD) at exabyte scale. To better understand why host-managed SMR is so impo...
Very recently, an important piece of work Bjørling et al. [10] tries to extend the capabilities of the block layer for utilizing internal parallelism of NVMe SSDs to enable fast computation for multi-core systems. It proposes changes to the existing OS block layer with support for per-CPU...