[rescue] Storage Edge Purchase

Sat Apr 5 20:34:58 CST 2003

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 05:15:31PM -0800, ftg wrote:
> Well the guy told me.. take all 4 D1000's and get 50% off. 
> So I did.. hmm now to get a differential RAID Controller.. 
> Any suggestions for PC/PCI SPARC/PCI  Differential Raid ?
> 
> Any suggestions for differential RAID?

The older BusLogic 958D (d for diff) are good SCSI controllers.  You
could go with software RAID - though in that case I would buy and use
at least 2 controllers and spread the data across 2 SCSI buses.

The BT958D is well supported under the free OSes as well.

Cordially
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