Tuesday, November 30, 2010

7 Data Protecting Technologies-1

Data security and fault freedom of storage are paid more and more attention. People are attaching more and more importance to developing new technologies to protect data.


1.SMART Technology
SMART, also called Self-Monitoring Analysis and Report Technology, mainly protects HD from losing data when there is some problems on the HD.    SMART drive can reduce the risk of data loss, it alarms to predict and remind thus enhancing the data security.

2.SPS
Shake  Protecting  System,    can  prevent  the  head  from  shaking  thus  enhancing  the  anti-knock characteristics of HD, avoiding damages caused by shake.

3.DFT
DFT, a kind of IBM data protecting technology, data recovery can check hard disk via using DFT program to access  the  DFT  micro  codes  in  hard  disk.  By  DFT,  users  can  conveniently  check  the  HD operation.

4.Floppy disk array technology  
Originally ‘Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks’. A project at the computer science department of the University of California at Berkeley, under the direction of Professor Katz, in conjunction with Professor John Ousterhout and Professor David Patterson.  
 
The  project  is  reaching  its  culmination  with  the  implementation  of  a  prototype  disk  array  file server with a capacity of 40 GBytes and a sustained bandwidth of 80 MBytes/second. The server is being interfaced to a 1 Gb/s local area network. A new initiative, which is part of the Sequoia
2000 Project, seeks to construct a geographically distributed storage system spanning disk arrays and automated libraries of optical disks and tapes. The project will extend the interleaved storage techniques  so  successfully  applied  to  disks  to  tertiary  storage  devices.  A  key  element  of  the
research will be to develop techniques for managing latency in the I/O and network paths.  
 
The original (‘Inexpensive’) term referred to the 3.5 and 5.25 inch disks used for the first RAID system but no longer applies.  
 
The following standard RAID specifications exist:  
RAID 0   Non-redundant striped array
RAID 1   Mirrored arrays
RAID 2   Parallel array with ECC
RAID 3   Parallel array with parity
RAID 4   Striped array with parity
RAID 5   Striped array with rotating parity  


The  basic  idea  of  RAID  (Redundant  Array  of  Independent  Disks)  phpto recovery is  to  combine  multiple inexpensive disk drives into an array of disk drives to obtain performance, capacity and reliability that  exceeds  that  of  a  single  large  drive.  The  array  of  drives  appears  to  the  host  computer  as  a
single logical drive. The Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) of the array is equal to the MTBF of an individual drive, divided by the number of drives in the array. Because of this, the MTBF of a non-redundant array (RAID 0) is too low for mission-critical systems. However, disk arrays can be made fault-tolerant by redundantly storing information in various ways.

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