Artifact Details

Title

RAID II prototype disk rack

Catalog Number

X1330.97

Type

Physical object

Description

Berkeley's gift of the RAID-II prototype (known affectionately in the CS Department as "FRANKENRAID,") comprises two seven foot equipment racks. One rack contains 36 320MB IBM hard disk drives; the other contains the RAID controller circuitry. A third additional rack formed part of the system but, being identical to the first hard disk array, was not part of the donation. (The original system had over 100 disk drives.) .

Readers interested in a full technical description can refer to the Department of Computer Science at UC - Berkeley Technical Report 92-705, Katz, R., et al.

Date

1992

Manufacturer

University of California, Berkeley

Place Manufactured

Berkeley, CA, US

Dimensions

overall: 71 x 24.5 x 25

Copyright Holder

Computer History Museum

Category

Memory: disk

Subject

mechanical; Electronics; Prototype; Magnetic disk

Credit

Gift of University of California, Berkeley

Lot Number

X1330.97
 

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