Multi-level RAID for very large disk arrays
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review - Design, implementation, and performance of storage systems
Performance of Two-Disk Failure-Tolerant Disk Arrays
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Higher reliability redundant disk arrays: Organization, operation, and coding
ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
RAID level selection for heterogeneous disk arrays
Cluster Computing
Rebuild processing in RAID5 with emphasis on the supplementary parity augmentation method[37]
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Hierarchical RAID: Design, performance, reliability, and recovery
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
The comprehensive performance analysis of striped disk array organizations - RAID-0
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication
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RAID5 (resp. RAID6) are two popular RAID designs, which can tolerate one (resp. two) disk failures, but the load of surviving disks doubles (resp. triples) when failures occur. Clustered RAID5 (resp. RAID6) disk arrays utilize a parity group size G, which is smaller than the number of disks N, so that the redundancy level is 1/G (resp. 2/G). This enables the array to sustain a peak throughput closer to normal mode operation; e.g. the load increase for RAID5 in processing read requests is given by α = (G - 1)/(N - 1). Three methods to realize clustered RAID are balanced incomplete blocks designs and nearly random permutations, which are applicable to RAID5 and RAID6, and RM2 where each data block is protected by two parity disks. We derive cost functions for the processing requirements of clustered RAID in normal and degraded modes of operation. For given disk characteristics, the cost functions can be translated into disk service times, which can be used for the performance analysis of disk arrays. Numerical results are used to quantify the level of load increase in order to determine the value of G which maintains an acceptable level of performance in degraded mode operation.