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Thermal Attacks on Storage Systems

Overview Disk drives are a performance bottleneck for data-intensive applications. Drive manufacturers have continued to increase the rotational speeds to meet performance requirements, but the faster drives consume more power and run hotter. Future drives will soon be operating at temperatures that threaten drive reliability. One strategy that has been proposed for increasing drive performance without sacrificing reliability is throttling. Throttling delays service to I/O requests after the disk temperature exceeds a set threshold temperature until the temperatures drops. This paper explores the possibility that a malicious attacker with the ability to issue disk read requests may be able to exploit throttling to carry out a denial-of-service attack on a storage system.

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Publisher	University of Virginia	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Removable Storage, Denial of Service, Hard Drives

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