On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Rich Alderson < [email protected]> wrote:
> Striping came along with redundant arrays of > inexpensive disks. At $50,000 a drive, RP07s were not candidates. ;-) > ​Rich, Be careful here with that sort of statement. Striping as a technology predates RAID and certainly could have been used by large commercial systems if people had wanted too. Supercomputers like Crays and CDC, as well as the "mini-crays" like Convex and even the "Crayolla" (Stellar) all striped with very expensive 19" technology in the late 1970s and 1980s. You are correct, that striping as a popular technique does not go mainstream until the 3.5" technology where the cost per byte got low enough that "anyone" could afford it - i.e. when the idea of RAID shows up. Clem
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