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The term Massive Array of Idle Disks refers to an energy-efficient disk array which has the capability of changing its disk drives into a low-power mode when the disk drives are not busy. Disk drives of the array may be controlled individually or in a group. The term Massive Array of Idle Disks is often abbreviated to MAID. A MAID disk array may have additional functions such as data migration/replication and access prediction to improve the energy saving.
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The basic idea of MAID is to save energy by exploiting storage access locality. That is, some disk drives which are installed in a disk array are frequently accessed whereas the others are rarely busy. MAID tries to spin down or power off such “low-temperature” disk drives to decrease the total energy consumption. The original papers [1, 2] which introduced MAID in 2002 studied different design choices and configurations. MAID disk arrays are mainly used for archival storage (replacing...
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Goda, K. (2018). Massive Array of Idle Disks. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1346
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