Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Raid solution

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 08 March 2002 02:09 pm, you wrote:
> "William J.A. Brillinger" wrote:
> > Anybody seen or used these?
> >
> > http://www.arcoide.com/productspages/raidcontrollers.html
> >
> > Duplidisk? may be an affordable backup solution for some of us.
>
> How would you use this, William?  You can implement Raid easily enough
> on your RaQ4 in software, I'm not sure I see the advantage.
>
> Nor do I see how you could implement it in a RaQ, which after all, is
> NOT PC-based hardware.

It works on a RaQ3i, I have one running, did it as an experiment.
issues:
pci board with connectors is a little thick (rest on MB heat sink)
its kind of a pain to set it up.
it essentially gives you a low overhead (hardware) raid solution

I would not do it again.

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Gerald Waugh