Looking for ideas on Hardware RAID.

Hi Folks,

I am struggling with the issue of H/W replacement, and as a keen SCSI 
follower for many years, I am considering migrating from SCSI to SATA 
, but as my experience with IDE to date has been one of  relative 
unreliability of IDE drives (compared to SCSI drives), I am thinking 
of using a small RAID configuration in each PC to provide more 
robustness. Performance is not my reason for RAID, reliability is.

\As such, I am interested in knowing of others have headed down this 
path before. Does anyone have experience with low cost, single machine
HARDWARE based RAID solutions for SATA, that will at least work with 
eCS (IE NO special driver is required)?

One such Item I have located is the Stardom SOHORAID RS2600 in a RAID 
1 configuration. This is available locally (New Zealand), so does 
anyone have any experience with this unit?

Thanks....................pk.


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Hi Peter

Peter wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I am struggling with the issue of H/W replacement, and as a keen SCSI 
> follower for many years, I am considering migrating from SCSI to SATA 
> , but as my experience with IDE to date has been one of  relative 
> unreliability of IDE drives (compared to SCSI drives), I am thinking 
> of using a small RAID configuration in each PC to provide more 
> robustness. Performance is not my reason for RAID, reliability is.
> 
> \As such, I am interested in knowing of others have headed down this 
> path before. Does anyone have experience with low cost, single machine
> HARDWARE based RAID solutions for SATA, that will at least work with 
> eCS (IE NO special driver is required)?
> 
> One such Item I have located is the Stardom SOHORAID RS2600 in a RAID 
> 1 configuration. This is available locally (New Zealand), so does 
> anyone have any experience with this unit?
> 
> Thanks....................pk.
> 
> 


No experience with SATA RAID at all but there was at least 1 other card 
that worked with the danis506.add driver. You should be able to find out 
by using Google to search OS/2 newsgroups for SATA RAID.

The most complete answer would probably be supplied by Dani - as in 
danis506.add & daniatapi.flt - so I suggest a polite enquiring email  :-)


Regards