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Disk drive protocol
Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) was a serial transport protocol used to attach disk drives to server computers. It was developed by IBM employee Ian Judd in 1990 to provide data redundancy for critical applications. SSA was deployed in server RAID environments, where it was capable of providing for up to 80 MB/s of data throughput, with sustained data rates as high as 60 MB/s in non-RAID mode and 35 MB/s in RAID mode. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Serial Storage ArchitectureA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Serial–Parallel Mixing-Mode Matrix–Vector Multiplication Architecture for Large-Scale In-Storage Computing With Ultrahigh Parallelism in nand Flash MemoriesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Upgrading and repairing PCsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Two Emerging Serial Storage Interfaces for Supporting Digital Libraries: Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) and Fiber Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)Cited 12 times
- Go sideways: SCSIA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Hard disk drive interfaceA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Two Emerging Serial Storage Interfaces for Supporting Digital Libraries: Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) and Fiber Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
Serial Storage Architecture
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Upgrading and repairing PCsScott Mueller, Mark Edward Soper · 1988
The web application hacker's handbookDafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto · 2007
Unix System Administration HandbookEvi Nemeth, Garth Snyder · 1989
Microprocessor Architecture, Programming, and Applications with the 8085Ramesh S. Gaonkar · 1996
RESTful Web ServicesLeonard Richardson, Sam Ruby · 2007
Digital systems testing and testable designMiron Abramovici · 1990
Linked dataTom Heath · 2011
Writing OS/2 Warp Device Drivers in CSteven J. Mastrianni · 1997
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