Resources

In this section, we share with you our experience and knowledge of building reliable data storage systems. We will illustrate how to build reliable storage systems using standard, high volume and low cost components (such as Intel CPUs, standard motherboard, ATA drives, etc.), and discuss tuning and optimizations of Linux OS for best storage performances. We will also demonstrate how to use existing tools and techniques for creating different classes of storage applications and for monitoring your storage resources. We also list and create useful links for your references.

Over time, we will continue to add to this section. If you want to contribute links to resources or share your experience with building reliable storage system, please send emails to sr5@sr5tech.com.

Building and maintaining reliable storage system

	Building low-cost and reliable Linux storage servers Considerations and tradeoffs when building a reliable AND low-cost Linux storage system.
	Failure detection and prevention Tools to detect and prevent faults in server systems.

RAID systems

	Introduction to RAID5 Our own introduction to RAID5.
	"RAID: High-Performance, Reliable Secondary Storage", 1994 ACM Computing Surveys article on RAID by the Berkeley RAID team