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In the light of the increasingly serious I/O bottleneck problem, the paper puts forward a method named RAID-M (RAID Matrix) to build high performance mass storage from cheap PC components based on the idea of multi-channel I/O and parallel access. Theoretical analyses prove that different RAID-M configurations vary their performance, space utilization and reliability, meeting various application goals. Experiments show that both the sequential read performance and sequential write performance of a RAID-M prototype machine have broken through the limitation of 32 bit/33 MHz PCI bus.
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Liu, P., Li, S., Lau, F.C.M. et al. RAID-M: A high performance RAID Matrix mass storage. Sci China Ser F 48, 409–420 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1360/04yf0060
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