CW: RAID now dominant form of large system storage

Posted in 1995

Michael E Willett — Wed, 21 Jun 1995 13:17:11 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In their June 19 issue, Computerworld technical editor Charles Babcock writes in his "RAID invades new turf" article: What a difference several years make. RAID is now the dominant form of large system storage, and the small drives that RAID is built on have dropped in price and grown in reliability as their mean time between failures has zoomed up to 500,000 hours from a modest 40,000. Mike W. Michael Willett, EE mwillett@storage.com Storage Computer Corp. http://www.storage.com/ 11 Riverside Street Nashua, NH 03062 Tel. 603-880-3005 :::I/O-accelerated, very fast disk arrays for all SCSI systems to 1,000 GB:::