Title
Self-Repairing Disk Arrays.
Abstract
As the prices of magnetic storage continue to decrease, the cost of replacing failed disks becomes increasingly dominated by the cost of the service call itself. We propose to eliminate these calls by building disk arrays that contain enough spare disks to operate without any human intervention during their whole lifetime. To evaluate the feasibility of this approach, we have simulated the behavior of two-dimensional disk arrays with n parity disks and n(n-1)/2 data disks under realistic failure and repair assumptions. Our conclusion is that having n(n+1)/2 spare disks is more than enough to achieve a 99.999 percent probability of not losing data over four years. We observe that the same objectives cannot be reached with RAID level 6 organizations and would require RAID stripes that could tolerate triple disk failures.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
CoRR
Disk array,Spare part,Computer science,Standard RAID levels,Real-time computing,RAID,Magnetic storage
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1501.00513
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jehan-françois Pâris1510265.03
Ahmed Amer2365.67
Darrell D. E. Long33111536.40
Thomas J. E. Schwarz419024.56