I am a longtime 3ware hardware raid user. All 3ware controller will pick up the disks from a older card and recognize a working raid. 3ware is very reliable, but not neccessary the fastest thing on earth. To add a 750GB disk to a 5 disk running array will require about 150 hours of hard work that will slow down data acceses... Another thing 3ware does is that it is very sensitive to just slightly non-perfect disks. And just forget reinstalling a once discarded disk, it is marked as BAD, even though the best disktests says it is perfect...
We run a Blackbox ServManager with 8 ports that connects to three PC, one mac and four Suns in our cold and noisy machine room, while I sit outside with just one monitor, screen and mouse. Neat but expensive...
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I am a longtime 3ware hardware raid user. All 3ware controller will pick up the disks from a older card and recognize a working raid. 3ware is very reliable, but not neccessary the fastest thing on earth. To add a 750GB disk to a 5 disk running array will require about 150 hours of hard work that will slow down data acceses... Another thing 3ware does is that it is very sensitive to just slightly non-perfect disks. And just forget reinstalling a once discarded disk, it is marked as BAD, even though the best disktests says it is perfect...
We run a Blackbox ServManager with 8 ports that connects to three PC, one mac and four Suns in our cold and noisy machine room, while I sit outside with just one monitor, screen and mouse. Neat but expensive...
There is a small gadget that will extend the IR range of the Palm. It is sold by the same people that makes the OmniRemote program....