RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
Machine Organization Accomplishment |1982
IBM researchers: Jai Menon, Norman Ken Ouchi, Brian E. Clark
Where the work was done: San Jose
What we accomplished: Use inexpensive disks to get good reliability at much lower costs than expensive disks designed for high reliability.
Related links:
- Wikipedia Entry for RAID
- U.S. Patent 4,092,732 by Norman Ken Ouchi in 1978 for precursor to RAID-5
- U.S. Patent 4,761,785 by Brian E. Clark et al in 1986 on "Parity spreading to enhance storage access" - RAID-5
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