Two Papers on RAIDs
Peter M. Chen, Garth A. Gibson, David A. Patterson, Randy Howard Katz, Martin E. Schulze · UC Berkeley · 1988
A RAID is a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk, a new way to organize small format disk devices to drastically increase I/O bandwidth. In this technical report, we describe the RAID concept, the basic RAID levels, a more detailed analysis of RAID performance on reliability, and our initial prototyping plans