@InProceedings{chen:eval, author = {Peter Chen and Garth Gibson and Randy Katz and David Patterson}, title = {An Evaluation of Redundant Arrays of Disks using an {Amdahl 5890}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems}, year = {1990}, month = {May}, pages = {74--85}, keywords = {parallel I/O, RAID, disk array, pario-bib}, comment = {A experimental validation of the performance predictions of patterson:raid, plus some extensions. Confirms that RAID level 5 (rotated parity) is best for large read/writes, and RAID level 1 (mirroring) is best for small reads/writes.} }