A performance evaluation tool for RAID disk arrays

Proceedings - First International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, QEST 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 8-17

  Thomasian, Alexander ^a   Han, Chunqi ^a,b   Fu, Gang ^a   Liu, Chang ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY PLANNING; COST FUNCTIONS; DISK FAILURE TOLERANT (DFT); RAID;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COSTS; PERFORMANCE; PLANNING; REDUNDANCY; USER INTERFACES;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 16244387176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QEST.2004.1348011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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