A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)

  • Authors:
  • David A. Patterson;Garth Gibson;Randy H. Katz

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Berkeley;Univ. of California, Berkeley;Univ. of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Increasing performance of CPUs and memories will be squandered if not matched by a similar performance increase in I/O. While the capacity of Single Large Expensive Disks (SLED) has grown rapidly, the performance improvement of SLED has been modest. Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), based on the magnetic disk technology developed for personal computers, offers an attractive alternative to SLED, promising improvements of an order of magnitude in performance, reliability, power consumption, and scalability. This paper introduces five levels of RAIDs, giving their relative cost/performance, and compares RAID to an IBM 3380 and a Fujitsu Super Eagle.