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

[Dennis Brantley]

The latest firmware for the StorPoint (5.33) raises the DVD limit to
9GB.

Dennis Brantley
Data Access Technologies, Inc.

Yael Golan wrote:

> Jonathan,
>
> At the University of Haifa Library we use one
> AXIS StorPoint CD server and one NAS server.
>
> On the StorPoint CD we have two DVD drives and
> a 32GB magnetic disc for caching.
> The caching process is fast (a few minutes
> for a full CD).
> However, the upper cached voulume size limit is
> 4GB, and if you have more on a DVD you can't
> cache it, and have to use it from the DVD drive.
>
> The NAS server was not designed for CD caching
> purposes, and does not even allow having a CD
> drive on it - you have to copy the stuff from
> your workstation's CD drive, and caching takes much
> longer than on the StorPoint CD. It can emulate a
> Netware server by "parasitically" utilising the
> user info on a real Netware server, but does not
> require similar amounts of memory per storage space.
>
> I found that, for some reason, running is faster
> from the NAS than from the StorPoint CD (though our
> NAS has only 32MB RAM as compared to 96MB on our
> StorPoint CD. We actually bought more memory for
> the NAS, but have a mysterious problem - the AXIS
> representatives did not manage to install
> the additional memory on our NAS...)
>
> It would be nice, of course, if the advantages
> of the two server types could be combined.
> We heard from AXIS representatives that
> a combination is in planning, but apparently
> there is nothing to show for it yet...
>
> Yael Golan
> Reference - Online Services
> Library
> University of Haifa
> 31905 Haifa, Israel
>
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