Contributed by grey on from the thanks for the submissions dept.
I have been using these products in my openbsd boxes to setup RAID 1 drive arrays without the hassle of using the CCD driver or any Hardware RAID drivers. It works like a charm and makes it easy to have a simple hard drive failover solution for OpenBSD or any unix for that matter. DataProtection Solutions by Arco is the place to find the products. They work wonderfully. If your looking for a transparent RAID solution thats invisble to the OS, this is the way to go!
I'd also like to point out readers to the Section 14 of the FAQ which mentions several other vendors offering similar products. Of course, you don't have to used dedicated hardware, when OpenBSD ships with support for RAID in software.
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By Dave Steinberg (66.192.34.8) dave@redterror.net on http://www.geekisp.com/
Overall the document they sent is very good, but it does contain some errors. The contact I had at Accusys was ultimately not responsive about my questions regarding the errors - and I haven't had time to press the issue.
Mind you, there are no tools to reconfigure the raid set - its all handled by jumpers on the back of the box. So its not a fancy setup, but it does fit a need.
If anyone is interested in a copy of the PDF, or in the work that I've done so far with my own version of the monitor app, just drop me an email.
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By Brad (216.138.200.42) brad at comstyle dot com on
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lol.
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By mike (80.219.121.189) on
with software raid I can slap two large ide disks onto a c3 motherboard and voila: a tiny raid 1 file-server that is quiet and cheap.
if you make multiple raid sets it decreases the time needed to rebuild parity to something reasonable.
By henning (80.86.183.226) henning on
there is still a LOT of very good reasons to go with hardware RAID tho.
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By Simon (217.157.132.75) on
Same thing with most hardware RAID solution, sure, they work, but if they don't tell me when a disk fails, it some how becomes less useful. With RAIDFrame I know that the operating system can inform me about failures.
Personally, I would like a list of hardware RAID solutions which has drivers providing feedback, not just a list of which will allow me to access the disks.
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By Cameron (63.93.197.67) on
By Anonymous Coward (131.241.8.250) on
Isn't this the most content-free website you've seen recently? From what I can tell, each of the products has about a 1 paragraph description of it. That's all. No FAQs or user manuals or other documentation.
Where's the documentation? Have I overlooked a link?
By Anonymous Coward (66.91.22.5) on
It works fine for me and is very cheap (free)