DiskSim
DiskSim is a
resource, The DiskSim Simulation Environment.
From the home page:
DiskSim is an efficient, accurate, highly-configurable disk system simulator
developed at the University of Michigan and enhanced at CMU to support research
into various aspects of storage subsystem architecture. It is written in C and
requires no special system software (just basic POSIX interfaces). DiskSim
includes modules for most secondary storage components of interest, including
device drivers, buses, controllers, adapters, and disk drives. DiskSim also
includes support for a number of externally-provided trace formats and
internally-generated synthetic workloads, and includes hooks for inclusion in a
larger scale system-level simulator.