RAID

  • Thanks Dave! Happy New Year!:-D

  • Koen Verbeeck (12/30/2012)


    W00t, easy question to close the year 😀 :w00t:

    Not really sure though why a Microsoft resource is so necessary when the question itself is about a pretty universal concept.

    Agreed

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  • Can't see the need for a Microsoft reference on a question that's about something universal. But I agree with Tom - I'd never use a Wikipedia reference as sole support for any statement.

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  • FYI: the "I" in the original paper stood for "Inexpensive":

    http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/RAIDpaper/Patterson88.pdf

    Rich

  • Toreador (1/2/2013)


    Can't see the need for a Microsoft reference on a question that's about something universal. But I agree with Tom - I'd never use a Wikipedia reference as sole support for any statement.

    + 1

  • My Master's degree program won't let me use Wikipedia at all... If it doesn't come from the university library as a scholarly resource, use it at your own risk... 😀

  • rmechaber (1/2/2013)


    FYI: the "I" in the original paper stood for "Inexpensive":

    http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/RAIDpaper/Patterson88.pdf

    Rich

    Yes, 'independent' is misleading - how are disks in RAID 5 'independent' when the data is striped across them? And in RAID 0 the disks are obviously wholly dependent on each other. They're only independent in RAID 1 or RAID 10.

    I know it's all over the web and text books now, but it's wrong. Gartner has a definition on its website headed RAID (Redundant Array Of Independent Disks), which says under RAID 0 'if one drive fails, the entire disk array subsystem is unavailable'??!?

    It's not specific to Microsoft and so doesn't require a Microsoft reference.

    Just to be (even more?) pedantic, 'independent' is not spelt 'independant'.

  • Thanks to you all for your thoughts on my question. It keeps me thinking and learning, which is why I'm here.

    All the best for 2013.

    Dave.

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