[olug] Promise FastTrak 100

[Mike Peterson]

The only other hardware raid than 3ware that I use and works is somewhat
more costly is duplidisk.
I have it running with 3 Red Hat Linux servers, 1 SCO Unix server, 1 Windows
XP Pro Peer to Peer and 1 Windows NT 4.0 Server.
www.duplidisk.com
www.arcoide.com

It is OS independent.
They do have software to remirror in Windows.
If you rebuild the kernel you can also remirror in Linux.

It comes in many types such as PCI, removable drive case setup, slotless
adapter,.

I am a reseller if you are interested in duplidisk/arcoide.

If you are only running Windows and or Linux the 3ware appears to be faster.
At least with version 1 and 2 of duplidisk.
I have not run any version 3 units yet.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Lederer" <brandonl at hms4emc.com>
To: "'Omaha Linux User Group'" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:35 AM
Subject: RE: [olug] Promise FastTrak 100


> I guess I am concerned about the processor overhead in a server.  Or is
> there not that much overhead for mirroring.  I understand how striping
would
> have serious overhead.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Lederer [mailto:brandonl at hms4emc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:26 AM
> To: 'Jay at RebootTheUser.com'; 'Omaha Linux User Group'
> Subject: RE: [olug] Promise FastTrak 100
>
>
> So which is better?  Linux Software RAID in the kernel or the Promise
> ATARAID TX controllers?  3ware is the only Hardware RAID for IDE?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Swackhamer [mailto:Jay at RebootTheUser.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:02 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Promise FastTrak 100
>
>
> Yes, with the Promise ATARAID controllers, it is 95% software raid. The
> drivers do the work, not the hardware. If you wanted to be cheap, there is
> only a small modification needed to the regular promise ata PCI
> controllers to make them function like the TX raid controllers.
>
> > I doubt I can use the devices.... I just said they exist......... but
they
> > are
> > mirroring.  this definitely can't be software RAID like in the kernel
and
> > stuff.  That is Software RAID..   this is something different, isnt it?
> > I
> > did   0, none,  Nada  configuration in the OS for this RAID, so how is
it
> > software RAID?
> >
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