The reading list for the midterm consists of the following papers:

- HP AutoRAID Hierarchical Storage System
- Design and Implementation of NFS
- A Highly-Available Network File Server (HA-NFS)
- IBM Enterprise Storage Server: A Designer's View
- Scale and Performance of a Distributed File System (AFS)
- Petal: Distributed Virtual Disks
- Frangipani: A Scalable Distributed File System
- A Cost-Effective High-Bandwidth Storage Architecture
- NFS Sensitivity to High-Performance Networks
- Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System
- Design of the iSCSI protocol
- Fibre Channel: A Connection to the Future