ARCHITECTURE FOR DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS

摘要

A system includes N first-in first-out (FIFO) modules, a buffer manager module, and N input/output (I/O) modules, where N is an integer greater than 1. The buffer manager module retrieves a set of N data units from a buffer and outputs the set of N data units to the N FIFO modules in parallel at a time, respectively. The N I/O modules receive the set of N data units from the N FIFOs in parallel, respectively, and output the N data units to a medium.