[Shu-cdromlan] Re: Experiences with Axis StorPoint?

[John Hamill]

 JOnathon

we distribute CD/DVD solutions in Australia, including formerly the
meridian-data CDNet stuff and currently the OTG Smartstorage stuff, however
it's primarily the Axis storpoint people are going for these days. We are
seeing a fair number migrating from CDNet to a NAS solution rather than
going with a dedicated server running a CD/DVD service, simply because the
NAS is so easy to get going and keep going.

The storpoint is an extremely good platform as it supports DVDs as well as
CD Writing across the network. The only thing I would suggest is that you
get the latest version of the firmware before you put it into a production
environment (5.33 from memory).

One gotcha we have come across is when using it with more than 4 Pioneer
scsi dvdroms we get SCSI bus timeouts and the hard drive gets wiped of its
cache material. We have come to the conclusion it's the DVD Roms that are at
fault,so we never install units with any more than 4 DVD Roms.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Eaton
To: CDROMLAN@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Sent: 15/03/02 21:28
Subject: Experiences with Axis StorPoint?

I'm faced with a proposal to migrate our ageing NetWare / SCSI Express /
CD Tower solution for serving CDs to a shiny new Axis StorPoint set up
(sounds like a jukebox but with cacheing capabilities for the
constantly-used CD titles).  Sounds good, but I'm rather ignorant of
networked CD hardware solutions these days.

Has anyone got any views or positive/negative experiences to report if
they've been through a similar migration?

Also, are the CDROMLAN list archives still searchable anywhere?

Thanks in advance

Jonathan

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