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To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (1761)	1/11/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Dougerdad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1820

RAID in the fibre channel SAN is the Market direction where Mylex shows leadership. Microsoft has done a poor job, at best in implementing RAID in software. Infact, many a vendor has gone broke in implementing software only RAID. For ow end workstations and servers, you still need an embedded DSP (thats Digital Signal Processor i.e. Strongarm or i960 or PowerPC) or "hardware solution". A DSP is mandatory. There are several drive management function going on with RAID which you should not burden the main processor with; if you don't have a hardware solution, you can measurably slow down a server or workstation. Its also much cheaper to use a DSP than to add additional Pentium II chips. The net result, for the low end you have a RAID solution with is: 1) manageable 2) high performance 3) fault tolerant 4) highly available IT managers are willing to pay hundreds of $$$ for this capability, much more than Adaptec's low end RAID solutions. Later Dougerdad