PrintEnergy Efficient Long Term Archival Storage System
The Project
Current archival storage systems still mostly consist of tape-based solutions, as tapes provide long-term relibility and are cost efficient, even if disk drives have started to become a competitor in terms of performance and total costs. Furthermore, they offer reduced access latencies compared to tapes. This project aims to build an energy-efficient and reliable disk-based archival storage system by using tailored hardware and software to be able to compete with the reliablity-gurarantees and the energy consumption of tape-based systems.
Our Mission
The PC˛ is working on a distributed archival file system that incorporates a multi-level-redundancy scheme tailored to fit current disk drives error models and embodies mechanisms to minimize the overall energy consumption.
Funding
The project is funded by ZIM / BMWi and runs from 01/2010 until 10/2011.
