The field of erasure-coded storage systems has evolved in parallel with the escalating demands of large-scale data applications. Erasure coding offers a robust method for ensuring data durability by ...
With hard disk drive (HDD) capacities edging upwards – 6TB HDDs are now available – Raid is becoming increasingly problematic as a method of data protection against hardware failure. As a response, ...
Since the late 1980s, RAID has been a fundamental method of data protection. But RAID arose in a world of SAN and NAS in hardware array products. Now the cloud and technologies such as object storage ...