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RAID II Prototype
Manufacturer | University of California -- Berkeley
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Identification,ID | RAID II Prototype
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Date of first manufacture | 1992
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Number produced | 1
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Estimated price or cost | -
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location in museum | -
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donor | UC - Berkeley
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RAID-II Prototype
RAID, "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks", has become a generally
recognized computer industry term in the 1990's. Under the leadership
of professor Randy Katz and his colleagues at the University of
California, Berkeley, the basic concepts used in RAID
were published in 1987 and were widely adopted as standards for
arrays of disk drives. A high [ercentage of today's mainframe and network
disk storage is in RAID configuratioons.
As the Berkeley group refined RAID architecture, this RAID-II prototype
was developed to reconcile hundreds of interacting hardware and software
desigh constraints, with completion in 1992. One rack contains the
RAID controller circuitry, and the other rack contains 36 320 megabyte
IBM disk drives. Pronnted circuit boards were designed by Berkeley
students, and the entire project consumed over 10,000 hours of labor.
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