disk failure tolerance
1Disk array controller — A disk array controller is a device which manages the physical disk drives and presents them to the computer as logical units. It almost always implements hardware RAID, thus it is sometimes referred to as RAID controller. It also often provides… …
2Hard disk drive — Hard drive redirects here. For other uses, see Hard drive (disambiguation). Hard disk drive Mechanical interior of a modern hard disk drive Date invented 24 December 1954 [1] …
3Enterprise disk drive — is a disk drives marketed for use by the enterprises. Enterprise computers are typically multiple user computers with high speed networking running multiple user applications, or enterprise software. Examples are: *transaction processing… …
4fault tolerance — A design method that ensures continued system operation in the event of individual failures by providing redundant elements. At the component level, the design includes redundant chips and circuits and the capability to bypass faults… …
5RAID — This article is about the data storage technology. For other uses, see Raid (disambiguation). RAID, an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (originally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks),[1] is a storage… …
6Burroughs MCP — Master Control Program redirects here. For the fictitious computer program villain, see Master Control Program (Tron). MCP Company / developer Burroughs / Unisys Programmed in ESPOL, NEWP OS family Not Applicable Working state Current …
7Novell NetWare — NetWare loading. (August 22, 2006) Company / developer Novell, Inc. Working state Current Source model Closed so …
8PCI Express — Not to be confused with PCI X. PCI Express Year created 2004 Created by Intel · Dell · IBM · …
9Nested RAID levels — Levels of nested RAID,[1] also known as hybrid RAID,[2] combine two or more of the standard levels of RAID (redundant array of independent disks) to gain performance, additional redundancy, or both. Contents 1 Nesting 2 RAID 0+1 …
10Virtual synchrony — is an interprocess messaging passing (sometimes called event queue management) technology. Virtual synchrony systems allow programs running in a network to organize themselves into process groups , and to send messages to groups (as opposed to… …
