On Friday 31 October 2003 10:18 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 16:21, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Friday 31 October 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote:
> > > No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge,
> > > but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better
> > > anyway:)
> >
> > No hardware RAID with IDE type devices.  SCSI is very well supported
> > because it does not rely upon device drivers.
>
> Ironic,  RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and was
> originally an IDE concept.
>
I was not aware of that.  AFAIK, SCSI RAID has been around for eons.  I think 
first used it on a Novell 3.12 server back in 1993 or something like that.  
The machine was a compaq P90 server with a smart array controller.  3-4.3 GB 
hard drives gave us 8.5 GB of usable spce, which was waaaayyyyyy more that we 
could have ever imagined using.
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