Early RAID

[Brad Parker]

Steve Stutman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Posted a few days ago looking for early, circa 1987 implementations of 
>RAID beyond RAID0 and RAID1.
>
>In my research, I've come across a fellow named Jan Janku, who proposed 
>some advanced ideas in 1986.

You might look into what Thinking Machines was doing.  I thought they
had some massively parallel disk setups in the mid '80 for the CM-2.

Wiki says they did something called DataVault in 1985.

(mumble.  i never liked the idea of simd.  but i did like danny's
tinkertoy tic tac toe machine :-)

-brad