Time: Mon Nov 04 05:42:03 1996 To: richard@caprica.com,neilnord@primenet.com, Dean, Nancy Lord From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: single letter drives Cc: Bcc: Hi Friends, I have been researching large disk arrays with single drive letters. The following URL is a site with high performance hard disks and also RAID systems: http://www.jescdrom.com RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It is a technology for very high reliability groups of disks. I am shopping for a 9.1 GB hard disk with a single drive letter, 7200 rpm, high-speed SCSI controller. JES carries the Seagate Barracuda, with a 5-year factory warranty. This is the best in the industry, right now. There is an OEM version of Windows 95 which has solved the old limitation with the File Allocation Table (FAT): maximum number of entries was 65,635. This should permit a single drive letter on the 9.1 GB. Evidently, JES offers RAID solutions which can go up to 4 controllers, 3 ports per controller, and 15 disks per port. This would be 4 x 3 x 15 = 180 disks! I have not been able to determine if and when this new version of Windows 95 will be available to the general public. The solution right now is to buy such an OEM machine. See the URL above for one such vendor. /s/ Paul Mitchell
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