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From: solomon@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Solomon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Drive Arrays
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Date: 2 Apr 91 00:26:22 GMT
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    I recently received some product information from Dell computers.
They claim to have a controller that they refer to as the "Dell
Drive Array" that can handle up to 10 disk drives at the same time?
I get the impression from their information that this controller can
actually write to these different disks _at the same time_, allowing
blazing fast disk access.

     Does anyone know about these drive arrays or about anyone elses
drive array.  Presumably, with multiple disks operating simultaneously,
you should be able to get _continuous_ disk storage rates up to a
few MB/sec.

			Tom Solomon
			solomon@chaos.utexas.edu