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: 
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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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