DocumentCode
1382599
Title
RAID: A Personal Recollection of How Storage Became a System
Author
Katz, Randy H.
Author_Institution
University of California, Berkeley
Volume
32
Issue
4
fYear
2010
Firstpage
82
Lastpage
87
Abstract
Randy H. Katz, David Patterson, and Garth Gibson first defined the acronym RAID, or redundant arrays of inexpensive disks, in a 1987 paper. The RAID idea was that it was feasible to achieve significantly higher levels of storage reliability from possibly very large numbers of lower-cost and lower-reliability smaller disk drives, which were then emerging for personal computers. Today, the National Academy includes RAID among the technologies created by federally funded research in universities that have led to multibillion dollar industries, and software implemented RAID is a standard component of modern operating systems. Here, Katz chronicles his experiences and contributions to RAID´s early development.
Keywords
Berkeley; History of computing; RAID; disk technology; redundant arrays; storage;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1058-6180
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.2010.66
Filename
5639125
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