[WinMac] It's a RAID! :)
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 08:19:05 -0500
1) FWB (StreamLogic) went bankrupt;
2) Are you SURE this is a true hardware RAID card, with the RAID
calculations being done on the card itself (like on a Mylex DAC960 card)?
If you need to use RAID Toolkit (a nice product), then the main CPU is
doing all the heavy-duty "lifting."
Cheers!
Dan
At 10:37 PM 12/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>All the extra goodies are already available for the Mac - for the few % of
>>>>the market that wants them, there is plenty available.
>>>
>>> Hardware RAID cards?!
>>
>>Yup, I think there's around 3 different flavours of them. There's
>>adaptec, of ourse, there the initio miles cards (which support spanning
>>disks across multiple cards), and there's a few others whose names I
>>don't know.
>
>FWB Hammer makes quite good ones too... I have a client running a 37
>gigabytes hardware RAID system on a Mac Appleshare IP 5.x server (9600),
>works beatufilly.
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