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- From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
- Subject: Re: Server Fault Tolerant H/W Sources Sought
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:04:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <199301042217.AA07305@tuna.wang.com>
- Sender: news@wang.com
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- On the comp.sys.novell news group, Thomas P. Morris at the
- UNC School of Public Health, CAIS (tmorris@sph.unc.edu)
- (tom@sphvax.sph.unc.edu)
- (tom@uncsphvx.bitnet)
- writes:
-
-
- >In terms of storage needs, I would expect to need to upgrade to
- >c1.5 GB storage in the next year (not including mirror or duplex
- >drives), with up to 3GB needed in the longer term...Options we are
- >looking at...:
-
- >-some form of RAID hardware....
-
- >So, What am I looking for? - Hardware recommendations
- - Vendor recommendations
- - Prices
- - End-user (system manager) experience with
- such systems
-
- There's a lot of USENET interest in the new RAID 7s from local RAID
- vendor, Storage Computer, in Nashua, New Hampshire. (Tel. 603-880-3005)
- Their R&D management email address is RAID7@World.std.com. There has
- recently been a lot of discussion on the peripherals news groups about
- the advantages of RAID 7 over the earlier RAIDs, and Storage Computer R&D
- just posted a lengthy, detailed technical report on RAID 7. You might want
- to take a look at that. I don't have any pricing information which you
- request, but they have test reports showing they are a price/performance
- leader versus RAID 4s & RAID 5s, etc. Their RAID 7 disk array platform has
- recently been favorably reviewed in Open Systems Today, Computer Technology
- Reviews, and the leading iX magazine in Germany. You might want to read
- those reviews. (Storage Technology's big ICEBERG RAID might be of interest
- too, but I think it's still not ready; they've been delayed by a lot of
- R&D problems. ICEBERG is probably too big for most Novell LANs, anyway.)
-
- Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com (We provide only RAID 3s for our VS minis,
- not either of the RAIDs mentioned above.)
-