@Article{garcia:striping-reliability, author = {Hector Garcia-Molina and Kenneth Salem}, title = {The Impact of Disk Striping on Reliability}, journal = {IEEE Database Engineering Bulletin}, year = {1988}, month = {March}, volume = {11}, number = {1}, pages = {26--39}, keywords = {parallel I/O, disk striping, reliability, disk array, pario-bib}, comment = {Reliability of striped filesystems may not be as bad as you think. Parity disks help. Performance improvements limited to small number of disks ($n<10$). Good point: efficiency of striping will increase as the gap between CPU/memory performance and disk speed and file size widens. Reliability may be better if measured in terms of performing a task in time T, since the striped version may take less time. This gives disks less opportunity to fail during that period. Also consider the CPU failure mode, and its use over less time.} }