RAID While RAID technology has existed for decades and most storage companies have built their own RAID subsystems, the existing technology was all designed for disk-based systems. The adoption of solid state media into the mainstream changed a lot of design considerations in the storage stack. In the early stages of the design, we knew…
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Like any modern file system, the Tintri file system employs various techniques to maintain the end-to-end integrity of the data stored within. There are numerous causes of data integrity loss: Storage media degradation Reading/writing to incorrect locations on the media Memory corruptions Errors during data transfer over interconnects Software bugs A set of basic error…
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SSDs have taken the storage industry by storm by filling the ever-widening latency gap between other computing resources and hard drives. Every major storage vendor has a flash product now, but what is interesting is the differences in their approaches. Many initially rushed to market with flash as a read cache for disks. Others have…
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