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When the Snap
Server was first introduced, its developer, Meridian, thought the network attached storage devices would be purchased by small office and home office users and small businesses. Instead, the Snap Server was snapped up by network administrators at large companies looking for an easy way to add storage to their systems without all the tediousness of setting up a Windows or Novell server.
The Snap Server line is now owned by Quantum, San Jose, CA, and the company has responded to corporate demands for higher-capacity devices. Low-end units (ranging from 10 GB to 60 GB) are still available, but what will make network administrators smile is the 120 GB Snap Server 4000.
The Snap Server 4000 stores on four hard drives that can be arranged as JBOD (just a bunch of disks), RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring) and RAID 5 (parity and striping). The RAID I and RAID 5 configurations will be of interest to high availability freaks, while the RAID 0 setting reduces latency times. Speed is only restricted by the bandwidth of your network.
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