Liddy Shriver-information about disks

Disk information

A number of companies make/market/produce SCSI disks; the following is just a partial list:

A number of companies make/market/produce IDE disks; the following is just a partial list:

Maxtor

Yahoo lists additional companies that should perhaps be added to the above list.

Disk simulator information

When performing storage system research, it might not always be possible to test one's ideas with real disks. Thus, disk simulators have been developed.

A couple of general disk performance simulators have been built:

DiskSim, developed at the University of Michigan by Greg Ganger and Bruce Worthington.
Pantheon, developed at HP Labs in the Storage Systems Program.

A few disk performance simulators have been built for the HP 97560 disk drive by:

David Kotz, Song Bac Toh, and Sriram Radhakrishnan (additional information can be found at here)
Yiming Hu. (A tarred version of the simulator is available.)
Nils Nieuwejaar.

Please send me additional pointers to disk manufacturers or disk simulators.