A series of disk array subsystems for the Mac, the Personal Array (from $1595) supports striping, mirroring, and spanning, with seek times as low as 5 ms and data transfer rates of up to 10 MBps. The subsystem software lets you select and switch among the configurations. From Procom Technology (Irvine, CA), the Personal Array consists of two SCSI drives in a compact, modular case; you snap new modules directly onto the system when you want to expand it.
Phone: (800) 800-8600 or (714) 852-1000.
The MicroDFT-1 (from $4495), a hot-swappable RAID storage device from ECCS (Tinton Falls, NJ), provides up to 2 GB of fault-tolerant storage. The subsystem, which slides into 5 1/4-inch drive bays, can replace your computer's primary hard drive to provide a fault-tolerant boot drive. The hardware-only product is based on RAID-1 technology, which eli
minates the need for software mirroring. The MicroDFT-1 reaches a data transfer rate of up to 7 MBps by reading from the drive that is closest to the data. Seek time is as low as 8 ms.
Phone: (800) 322-7462 or (908) 747-6995.
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