Distributed File System prof. Giovanni Chiola

Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks


Hardware versus Software implementation.
RAID-0: Striping (increase throughput and disk space)
RAID-1: Mirroring (increase availability and fault-tolerance)
RAID-5: Striping + Parity (tolerate single disk loss)
non-standard extensions with Hamming codes.

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