Due Tuesday, March 13.
Read the following paper:
- A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) - David Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy Katz.
Comment on the paper. Provide a short (a few
sentences) summary of the focus of the paper or key arguments made.
Make sure to specifically address these points:
- What was the main motivation for RAID in this paper?
- Did predictions of processor performance and disk capacity hold?
- How did the proposed designs balance performance and capacity from
RAID1 to RADI5?
- What were some of the open issues?
- In retrospect, what do you think turned out to be the important
contributions? What did the authors get wrong?
Your comments do not need to be long at all; I mostly want to
make sure that you've thought about the important parts of each
paper.