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Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk

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title
Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk
type
book
summary
Hardware-level walk through SRAM cache organization, DDR DRAM timing and disk scheduling
author
Bruce Jacob, Spencer W. Ng, David T. Wang
year
2007
tags
computer-architecture, memory, storage
status
want-to-read
created
2026-05-12
updated
2026-05-12

Morgan Kaufmann (2007). Encyclopedic walk through the memory hierarchy at the hardware level: SRAM cache organization, DDR DRAM timing and refresh, disk geometry and scheduling. The book that explains why your microbenchmark numbers move when you reseat a DIMM. On the eatonphil-bookclub speculative future list.

Related: hold-on-to-your-hardware (current DRAM/NAND supply story).