[Gllug] [Fwd: Server]

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 09:52:20PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> At 20:21 23/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >The ICP Vortex cards are real RAID cards. Everything is done in hardware
> >- you can build arrays before the operating system is installed.
> 
> Last time I looked at a Vortex card it didn't have an onboard battery 
> backed cache.  It seems reasonable to assume that some of the Vortex range 
> do, but I bet the price is much higher than the "entry level" option.

We had a couple of these, and I'm pretty sure they had batteries on
the card, but I might be wrong.

The performance was nothing to write home about either, and both cards
eventually failed and were sent back.

Rich.

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