We currently use a ATA raid  max 16x160Gb box (currently 8 x 160Gb) on our
central NFS Solaris machine both as homedir for our developers and as cheap
storage box for medium and short term storage,

Price tag is OK ( see www.transtec.co.uk)

Software interface could be better (we also have boxes with controllers from
infortrend , their interface is better)

we did in the past backup to disk. Currently not but will start doing it again
, the plan is then to backup on ata and clone , so that  servers have a
online copy avalible for ultra fast recovery.

Hope it is of use , maarten

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 16:51, you wrote:
> Hey All,
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> This is kind of off-topic...
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> Anyone extensively using File Type devices?  By extensive I mean most of
> you data is written to disk first then staged/cloned to tape.
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> What are you using for the File Type devices?
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> Anyone using an ATA raid array(Claiiron CX600, Nexsan Ataboy, StorageTek
> BladeStore)?  Comments?
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> I'm looking into the upcoming ATAbeast from Nexsan and I'm impressed by
> the price/meg.  Does anyone have experience with any Nexsan ATA based
> arrays, either as File Type devices or in general use?
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> Thanks,
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> Joel
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