The "Nike" arrays are the newer model 10 and model 20 high availability
disk solution.  The Nike cabinet supports multiple RAID protocols but if
used for the system volume set, and high availability, you must use RAID-1
(hardware mirroring).

At 01:38 PM 5/15/97 -0500, James Trudeau wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>Clint Schwartz wrote:
>
>>My experience with the "nike" disk arrays has proven them to be hot
>>swapable.  Be aware, you can only lose 1 drive at a time though...
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Beg pardon?  Does that mean don't drop it on the floor or do these
critters have a habit
>of losing more than one drive at a time?  Bear in mind I'm new at this stuff.
>

I think that the answer to this depends on the RAID implementation chosen.
If you choose striping, you probably can only lose one at a time. If you
choose mirroring, you can lose at most one drive per mirror pair.

>Second question:
>I've talked to several people at HP and none can tell me what a "nike"
array is.  What
>we've got is a "HA Disk Array Mod 20 SP620" product number A3550AZ.  Izzat
a nike
>or a rebok? I said I was new.
>

As mentioned above, the Model 20 *is* the Nike.

>James "been up since 2:30 am" Trudeau
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Good night. :-)

Bill Lancaster
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