Title :
Performability analysis of disk arrays
Author :
Islam, S. M Rezaul
Author_Institution :
IBM Corp., Boca Raton, FL, USA
Abstract :
In recent years, arrays of small inexpensive disks have become a cost effective alternative that offers high performance and high capacity. Arrays of small disks contain many more components than a large single disk; therefore, they are prone to random failure. In this paper we present a technique to evaluate the effectiveness of the array in the presence of random failure and repair
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; hard discs; performance evaluation; redundancy; reliability theory; array effectiveness; disk arrays; hard disks; performability analysis; random failure; redundancy; repair; Costs; Degradation; Error correction codes; Fault tolerant systems; Mission critical systems; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Protection; Redundancy; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the 36th Midwest Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Detroit, MI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1760-2
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.1993.343105
