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Reliability and performance of hierarchical RAID with multiple controllers

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Sung Hoon Baek,

Eui Joung Joung,

Chong Won ParkAuthors Info & Claims

PODC '01: Proceedings of the twentieth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing

Pages 246 - 254

https://doi.org/10.1145/383962.384036

Published: 01 August 2001 Publication History

Abstract

Redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) offer fault tolerance against disk failures. However a storage system having more disks suffers from less reliability and performance. A RAID architecture tolerating multiple disk failures shows severe performance degradation in comparison to the RAID Level 5 due to the complexity of implementation. We present a new RAID architecture that tolerates at least three disk failures and offers similar throughout to the RAID Level 5. We call it the hierarchical RAID, which is hierarchically composed of RAID Levels. Furthermore, we formally introduce the mean-time-to-data-loss (MTTDL) of traditional RAID and the hierarchical RAID using Markov process for detailed comparison.

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Reliability and performance of hierarchical RAID with multiple controllers
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