[geeks] RAID

[Jonathan Katz]

On May 7, 2009, at 11:17 AM, nate at portents.com wrote:
>
> "One of the surprises about RAID was it was so expensive. The I in the
> name when we coined the term was for inexpensive disks. But the  
> system was
> so expensive, that was kind of awkward for marketing people. So Randy
> [Katz (one of Patterson's colleagues at Berkeley)] blessed the  
> change to
> independent for I. Since the RAID boxes weren't cheap, that was  
> probably a better name."
>

No relation.