Early RAID

2 Aug 2006

...
   Cray was also
mumbling about parallel arrays of cheap   drives about then,
  but I don't think the word "RAID"
was mentioned.  IIRC,   Cray was mostly
  interested on how throughput could be improved by
striping.  
 Certainly RAID was around before 1985 - it was just RAD. Disks were
 not inexpensive back then.
 This may not be old enough for the OP, but...

Around 1987 or so we were setting up a SCO box on an ALR 386 machine. There was a software
product that allowed for striped arrays of SCSI disks with a parity drive in that
environment. I want to say it was called something like Paladin, but I can find no
reference on it.

Didn't work with the Fujitsu drives we had. Kept hosing the superblock due to cache
writeback issues.

Kelly

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Early RAID