First Compaq servers I worked on were the 386/25 Deskpros, I think they had 2 100MBs. We also had some AST crap, when we got the first SystemPros we thought we died and went to heaven ...
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT RE: HP drive sleds 500mb ??? wow, those are whoppers ! IIRC, the first drives we had in our original SystemPro ( 386/33 ) were the Connor 210mb drives, eight of them. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ________________________________ From: Free, Bob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: HP drive sleds LOL, I just came across a pair of new 500MB Compaq SystemPro drives...wish I had what was paid for them back then From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: HP drive sleds 'magical' ROM ??? I think that's stretching it a bit ... but to have the drive firmware closely *matched* to the drive controller to ensure proper operation and compatibility with different OS drivers is a big plus from my experience. I like knowing that all drives in an array will behave exactly the same way each time to a commoand from the controller. And I may have been one of the lucky ones, but going all the way back to the old Compaq SystemPro array controller , I've found the SMART array controllers from Compaq/HP as better than decent, compared to problems I've had with generic and older Dell PERCs. Your mileage may vary Erik Goldoff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
