Re: Arco DupliDisk3

["C. Bensend" <benny@bennyvision.com>]

>     I just saw a product review for the Arco DupliDisk3 on
> theinquirer.net, and I was wondering if anyone reading misc@ has any
> experience with them, good or bad.  Seems like a neat way to mirror
> some IDE disks, but so far I haven't been able to confirm if it does
> striped reads.

Hey Breen,

   I have several DupliDisks, both 2 and 3.  I recently switched to
Accusys ACS-7500 units for a couple of reasons:

1) Hot-swap capability
2) Physical installation much nicer
3) On-the-fly rebuild
4) Approximately the same cost

   I didn't have any _serious_ problems with the Arco's, but several
times I had machines that wouldn't reboot (they'd hang on detecting the
disk drives).  A power-cycle fixed it, but it sucked since I was doing
this remotely.

Just a little more data, hope it helps.

Benny


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