Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:28:01 -0400 From: Ken Lam <klam@awod.com> To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>, FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, FREEBSD-SCSI-L <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Streamlogic RAIDION drive arrays Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19960829002801.00913104@awod.com>
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At 03:39 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote: > Has anyone tried Streamlogic's RAIDION drive arrays? Apparently >they can do RAID 1 and 5 in hardware... all your host sees is one very >large, very fast disk. I'm thinking of tossing one of those with a >dozen 2GB drives or so in for a news server. I may not need special >drivers, but I can see some hurdles with disktab-related stuff. >Maybe I can get an eval unit from them to play with. :) Yes. I have installed one for a non-linear video editor. It was a 12GB array. Worked great. Of course it was used on a Macintosh. It wasn't streamlogic, but micropolis then. The only thing I didn't really like was that I couldn't purchase is with other brand drives (I prefer Seagate Hawks). I didn't get a chance to test it under FreeBSD. Fairly fast, but other than the RAID 5 aspect, why not use CCD? News spool is hardly a get killed by users application (unless you have lots of disgruntled postal workers online ;) ) --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"
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