Parallel Data Lab RAID Tutorial

Dr. Garth Gibson presented this tutorial on RAID at SIGMOD95 and ISCA95. The HTML presentation here contains 74 slides total. You can progress through them one at a time or use the following outline to go to sections that interest you.

The tutorial is also available in pdf format.

• Title
• Outline
• RAID basics: striping RAID levels, controllers
• Recent advances in disk technology
• Expanding RAID markets
• RAID reliability: high and higher
• RAID performance: fast recovery, small writes
• Exploiting disk parallelism: deep prefetching
• RAID over the network
• Summary