Redundant Array Of Independent Disks - Whitepaper On RAID
White Papers RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive or Independent Disks) is an important component for servers on a critical enterprise or workgroup network. RAID provides crash-proof hard drive systems. RAID technology makes data more accessible by preventing...
[August 16, 2003, 0:00]
RAID-II: A High-Bandwidth Network File Server
White Papers The RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) group at U. Berkeley built a prototype disk array called RAID-I. The bandwidth delivered to clients by RAID-I was severely limited by the memory system bandwidth of the disk array's host workstation.
[September 1, 2006, 0:00]
Redesigning RAID For SATA Drives With Accelerated Drive Teaming (XDT)
White Papers Considering that one of the goals of RAID was to use inexpensive disk drives, the decline of disk prices during that time has certainly been a driver in RAID's broad acceptance. In the seventeen years since RAID researchers at Berkeley unveiled...
[August 30, 2007, 0:00]
Let's Talk About RAID
White Papers RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or sometimes RAID is a method of combining several hard drives into one logical unit. Independent") Disks. It can offer fault tolerance and higher throughput levels than a single hard driveor group of...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
RAID Theory: An Overview
White Papers RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks. RAID is something all have heard about but very few understand, at least fully. There are a dozen or so theories as to why RAID was conceptualized, but the most accepted reason...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
RAID 5 For Data Resilience - The Case For Intelligent RAID Controllers
White Papers Among these is the implementation of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) 5 to enable data storage arrays with a cost-effective mix of disk striping with rotating parity. This foundational technique is, however, processor-intensive and tests...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
What Is RAID
White Papers The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is to combine multiple inexpensive disk drives into an array of disk drives to obtain performance, capacity and reliability that exceeds that of a single large drive.
[November 26, 2003, 23:00]
IDE RAID On The Desktop
White Papers The effect of this trend is best explained in Patterson, Gibson, and Katz's opening of their 1988 "A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)" paper, introducing RAID. Their paper proposed several levels of RAID, all aimed at...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
RAID Explained
White Papers The acronym 'RAID' stands for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks. It is generally recommended that all disks in a RAID should be identical (or at the very least, the same size and speed).
[April 28, 2006, 0:00]
Upstart Could Shake Up Networked Storage
News The company's most popular product is the SR1520, a 5.25-inch-tall system that accommodates 15 drives and uses RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) technology for increased data reliability. The big motivating factor for using this compared...
[July 27, 2006, 16:25]
Sun 'Honeycomb' Finally On The Way?
News To improve reliability, the Honeycomb system uses a more elaborate version of a common storage technology called RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks). Conventional RAID splits data across multiple disks so information is preserved even if...
[April 25, 2006, 12:10]
Intel Delays New P4 Due To 'anomalies'
News But one of its most popular features will likely be an option that allows PC makers to add a technology called RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks). A less expensive model without RAID, the 700X, will be available in late April.
[April 14, 2003, 14:05]
Desktops Morph To Fit Latest Chips
News Although not an entirely new feature, Intel beefed up its support of RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) for Serial ATA interface hard drives by combining RAID's abilities to use multiple disks to boost performance and back up data in a...
[June 22, 2004, 8:40]
IBM Plots Next PowerPC Chips, Part II
News The chip, which will not sample until late in the year, possibly the fourth quarter, will be aimed at applications ranging from Net appliances to RAID controllers and networking equipment, such as routers.
[May 25, 2000, 14:26]
Via Diverts Down 64-bit Track
News All the K8 chipsets include support for Serial ATA storage systems, audio, Ethernet running at 1 gigabit per second, and Universal Serial Bus 2.0, as well as RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) technology to group drives for data...
[September 24, 2003, 10:40]
HP Server Awaits Intel Go-ahead
News Its top-end Intel server, the x440, can protect data from faulty memory chips -- a technology similar to the RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) technology used to for data protection on hard drives.
[October 16, 2002, 12:59]
IBM Stacks Up Storage Bricks
News As with current RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) technology, information such as a database file is stored on several disks so it won't be lost if a single disk fails. The project, called Collective Intelligent Bricks and formerly code...
[December 17, 2002, 12:36]
Cluster Aware WINS And DHCP
News So you must also factor in hardware RAID and UPS for the shared external storage. That's unfortunate, especially since it's easy and inexpensive to provide high availability for these services using the Windows Cluster Service.
[October 22, 2002, 13:47]
Intel Eyes Storage
News Both internal and external storage systems frequently are set up using redundant array of independent disk, or RAID, technology, which allows data to be preserved even if a drive fails. The company currently sells RAID controllers and Serial ATA...
[June 7, 2004, 16:40]
