Re: OT: Re: Interesting new RAID card?

[Nico Meijer <nico_(_dot_)_meijer_(_at_)_zonnet_(_dot_)_nl>]

Hi all,

> > I'm just curious, how do you rebuild the array after a drive failure?
>
> The more modern Arco products and the Accusys ACS7500 remirror when you
> replace the failed drive.  I am much more familiar with the Accusys than
> the modern ArcoIDE products, but the Accusys is just plain cool.  Pull
> the failed drive, insert the new drive, lock it down, remirroring
> starts.  The Accusys doesn't even include any software for any OS.

This is identical to the units I use.

The reason I don't mention any names, btw, is because my local supplier 
imports them directly out of Asia and then brands them. I have no idea 
where they originally come from.

The units are sold as "tapeless backup systems" (hot swap PATA). They 
are really RAID boxes for levels 0 and 1, but I have been informed sales 
have jumped after the name change...

They are cool boxes though: mount a couple of drives in one machine, 
install & configure and place the second disk in an identical machine. 
Boot that up, install yet another disk and now you have two identical 
machines for the 'time investment' of one.

> Only complaint: the Accusys products have no way to inform you of a
> failed drive, though modifying it to route the error LEDs to a couple
> inputs on the parallel port shouldn't be hard.

These units I use beep really loud on drive failure. ;-)

Bye... Nico