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CCS367 STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES
UNIT II INTELLIGENT STORAGE SYSTEMS AND RAID
Components of an intelligent storage system, Components, addressing, and performance of hard
disk drives and solid-state drives, RAID, Types of intelligent storage systems, Scale-up and scaleout storage
Architecture.
PART - A
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1. What is intelligent storage system?
2. Identify the key components of an intelligent storage system. Nov/Dec 2024
3. Nov/Dec 2024
Compare scale-up and scale-out storage architecture.
April/May 2024
4. What are the components of an intelligent storage system?
5. Draw the diagram of components of an intelligent storage system.
6. What is front end controller?
7. Define command queuing.
8. List the commonly used command queuing algorithms.
9. What is seek time optimization?
10. What is access time optimization?
11. List the key components in the internal structure of an SSD April/May 2024
12. Define cache.
13. What is read operation with cache?
14. What is write operation with cache?
15. Differentiate between write back and write through protocol.
16. What is flushing in cache?
17. What is cache mirroring?
18. What is cache vaulting?
19. What is LUN masking?
20. List the key components of disk drive.
21. What is zoned bit recording?
22. List the factors affecting disk drive performance.
23. Define data transfer rate.
24. Define RAID ((Redundant array of Independent Disks).
25. What is high end storage system?
26. Define midrange storage system.
27. Define scale-up storage architecture.
28. Define scale-out storage architecture.
PART B
29. Describe with neat block diagram the components of intelligent storage
system.
30. Define RAID and describe the different RAID levels (e.g., RAID 0, RAID 1,
Nov/Dec 2024
RAID 5) and their respective characteristics.
31. Explain the disk drive performance.
32. Discuss the impact of seek time and latency on the overall performance of
Nov/Dec 2024
HDDs and SSDs.
33. Explain how scale-out storage architecture addresses the scalability
Nov/Dec 2024
challenges faced by traditional storage systems.
34. Discuss different RAID levels and their suitability for different application
environments.
35. Demonstrate the way by which RAID provides data protection and fault
April/May 2024
tolerance to the data that is stored on disks.
36. Illustrate the components and working of intelligent storage systems. April/May 2024
37. With diagram explain different RAID techniques.
38. Explain the types of intelligent storage system.
39. Explain with neat sketch of scale-up storage architecture.
40. Discuss the scale-down storage architecture with neat diagram.
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PART C
41. An application specifies a requirement of 200 gb to host a database and
other files. it also specifies that the storage environment should support
5,000 iops during its peak processing cycle. the disks available for
configuration provide 66 gb of usable capacity, and the manufacturer
specifies that they can support a maximum of 140 iops. the application is
response time sensitive and disk utilization beyond 60 percent will not meet
the response time requirements of the application. compute and explain the
theoretical basis for the minimum number of disks that should be
configured to meet the requirements of the application
42. Consider a scenario in which an I/O request from track 1 is followed by an
I/O request from track 2 on a sector that is 180 degrees away from the first
request. A third request is from a sector on track 3, which is adjacent to the
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sector on which first request is made. Apply FIFO, Seek time optimization
and Access time optimization algorithms for this scenario and identify the
best solution. Justify your answer.
43. Which components constitute the disk service time? Which component
contributes the largest percentage of the disk service time in a random
I/O operation?
44. The average I/O size of an application is 64 KB. The following
specifications are available from the disk manufacturer: average seek
time = 5 ms, 7,200 RPM, transfer rate = 40 MB/s. Determine the
maximum IOPS that could be performed with this disk for this
application. Taking this case as an example, explain the relationship
between disk utilization and IOPS
45. Consider a disk I/O system in which an I/O request arrives at the rate of
80 IOPS. The disk service time is 6 ms.
a. Compute the following:
Utilization of I/O controller
Total response time
Average queue size
Total time spent by a request in a queue
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