Lee Newberg and David Wolfe

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-91-625
April 1991

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1991/CSD-91-625.pdf

It has become economically advantageous to use arrays of inexpensive disks in place of fewer large disks. Some care must be taken to maintain high reliability in these new systems; adding extra disks to store redundant information achieves a system which is able to withstand some disk failures. The problem is exacerbated, however, when a controller or power line fails, and a string of disks go down simultaneously. We discuss how the strings should be laid out to maximize reliability of the system.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Newberg:CSD-91-625,
    Author = {Newberg, Lee and Wolfe, David},
    Title = {String Layout in Redundant Disk Arrays},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {1991},
    Month = {Apr},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1991/5209.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-91-625},
    Abstract = {It has become economically advantageous to use arrays of inexpensive disks in place of fewer large disks. Some care must be taken to maintain high reliability in these new systems; adding extra disks to store redundant information achieves a system which is able to withstand some disk failures. The problem is exacerbated, however, when a controller or power line fails, and a string of disks go down simultaneously. We discuss how the strings should be laid out to maximize reliability of the system.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Newberg, Lee
%A Wolfe, David
%T String Layout in Redundant Disk Arrays
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1991
%@ UCB/CSD-91-625
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1991/5209.html
%F Newberg:CSD-91-625