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Acer swoops in with RAID

Acer America is offering new servers ready for RAID technology.

Brooke Crothers Former CNET contributor
Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an editor at large at CNET News and a contributing reporter to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. His interest in things small began when living in Tokyo in a very small apartment for a very long time.
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Acer America is offering new RAID-ready servers.

The AcerAltos 9000 RAID-ready server is designed for critical applications at small and medium-sized businesses and departments within larger corporations and can handle up to 150 users. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) technology provides data redundancy and round-the-clock availability for servers.

The AcerAltos 9000 ships with a Mylex RAID controller card offers plug-and-play RAID capability right out of the box, the company said. The Altos 9000 RAID platform has an eight-bay swappable Disk Tray Management System design, which allows customers to easily replace a failed drive without having to bring down the server, Acer said.

The AcerAltos 9000 uses a 166-MHz Pentium processor and integrates three 4.3GB fast/wide 7200rpm SCSI-III hard drives configured optimally as one 8.6GB drive with a stripe size of 16KB, and a dual-channel Mylex RAID controller card. The Mylex controller card provides a double-burst I/O throughput from 20 mbps to 40 mbps.

The AcerAltos 9000, which is also capable of symmetric multiprocessing, is available for an estimated retail price of $9,600. Acer America plans to ship servers in a RAID-ready configuration using the high-performance, three-channel Mylex controller card in mid-September.

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