Evaluating the Impact of Irrecoverable Read Errors on Disk Array Reliability

—We investigate the impact of irrecoverable read errors—also known as bad blocks—on the MTTDL of mirrored disks, RAID level 5 arrays and RAID level 6 arrays. Our study is based on the data collected by Bairavasundaram et al. from a

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: PRDC
• Authors: Jehan-François Pâris, Ahmed Amer, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas J. E. Schwarz
• Keywords: Dependable Computing, Irrecoverable Read, Level 5 Arrays, Mirrored Disks, PRDC 2009