David Garamond wrote:

>Thanks for the background story, Ann. Some google result says that RAID
>was invented in the "early 80's".
>

Our first "big disk" was around a 150 MB 8" drive for a couple of
thousand dollars. The DEC HSC controller did striping and shadowing,
but only on R80 and R81 drives -- 14" mini-Winnies that cost about
twenty grand a pop plus another $100K (?) for the HSC. RAD, perhaps,
but definitely not RAID.

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Jim Starkey
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