Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:54:07 -0500 From: "Mike Avery" <mavery@mail.otherwhen.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Low cost RAID5? Message-ID: <199904100004.TAA05687@hostigos.otherwhen.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091545180.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <199904082021.PAA03945@hostigos.otherwhen.com>
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On 9 Apr 99, at 15:46, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Mike Avery wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 12:11:34 -1000, David Langford wrote: > > > > Can anyone recomend a good but low cost RAID 5 solution? > > > > I am only looking at a three drive solution. > > > > SCSI-SCSI would be preferable. > > You might surf over to http://www.corpsys.com/ and look around. > > They have some very attractive products. Just avoid the Micropolis > > drives.... and I'm not sure what happens to customers outside the USA... > I'm curious to know if these guys are still around .. the catalogs and > such we have from them are well over four years old. Micropolis has been > out of business for longer than that. The vendor is around, however Micropolis is not. Micropolis fell on hard times and was bought out by a company that did not share their commitment to quality. They sent from being the gold standard of hard drives to being the standard in door stops in short order. A pity... Many people are selling leftover Micropolis drives, but without Micropolis to back up the drives, it's not a very good choice. My comment about Micropolis above was because I saw that CorpSys does sell some Micropolis drives, and I suggest that if you buy a raid, it be without Micropolis drives. Good luck, Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: Insert dynamite in drive b: and light fuse when ready... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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