WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting
TOPIC: IDE-based Hardware RAID from 3ware
WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol
WHEN: April 9th, 2002 : Pizza @ 6:30PM, Meeting @ 7:30PM
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Hi there, everyone!
Be sure to read the special note below for info on the pizza part of the
meeting.
This time around we've got some nice folks from 3ware (www.3ware.com) coming
up to talk to us about their RAID cards. Personally, I've been looking more
and more into IDE-based RAID solutions for home use, in particular, and
possibly for work as well.
Some of the more popular solutions out there seem to be mostly fancy
software with a more-or-less generic IDE card. Of course, this software
usually only runs under Windows, so it's not very useful to me. It also
seems rather counter-productive to take IDE, which is usually CPU intensive
to begin with (at least...compared to SCSI) and add more overhead by having
the CPU do RAID as well.
3ware makes some pretty interesting looking cards that come with Linux
drivers and utilities. They will be bringing a machine along with them as
well, so that we can poke at and actually pull a drive out of while the box
is running - hot fail-over!
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For this meeting, 3ware has generously offered to provide pizza for us. If
you'd like to partake, show up to O'Reilly at 6:30PM. The full details of
how the pizza will make it there have not yet been worked out, but that's
the current plan.
If you are not going to be early for pizza, please be sure to show up a
little before the meeting time so the meeting can get underway as close to
7:30 as possible.
See you all next week!
-Dustin
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Founder & President
The North Bay Linux Users' Group
http://www.nblug.org/
dustin(a)nblug.org
