How are the Galaxy Drives?

[Chris Blair]

I’m not Bob…but Rorke Data is pretty well-known in the non-linear world. Most of their arrays used to be part of OEM turn-key systems. We have a VelocityQ turnkey we bought in 2003 that uses a Rorke Data SCSI Array with Seagate drives in it. I believe they use Seagate drives exclusively in all their systems.

From my experience they’ve not done a very good job of marketing their products to small to mid-size shops, and they’ve often priced their stuff out of those companies budgets.

I find their web-site and product descriptions to be really confusing, but I know they have a pretty solid reputation overall. They’re actually part of a larger company called Bell Micro that has several storage divisions, so they’ve been in the game for quite a long time.

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com

[Simon Blackledge]

Looks like an infrotrend.

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[Bob Zelin]

Simon makes an interesting an important observation, when he says “it looks like an Infortrend”.

I recently was asked to install a Rorke Data SATA array which turned out to be a 3Com Sidecar drive array, repackaged by Rorke Data under their name. I did not know the story with the drivers, so I ignorantly installed the driver CD that came with the product, and nothing worked (MAC FCP system). I called Rorke Data, and spoke with their tech support. Their tech, who was nice enough, did not have a clue about this product, but TO HIS CREDIT, setup a conference call with 3Com tech support, that showed me where to download the correct OS-X 10.5 drivers for this product, so I could get it to work.

Make your own judgements from this statement.

Bob Zelin

[Dave Blaire]

Thanks for the info. I’ve since suggested to the owners here to not get such an expensive system that will lock them in to 16TB when in just a few years there will probably be something much faster cheaper and better.

I’m thinking we’ll go with the Caldigit HDOne 4TB.

– Dave

[Bob Zelin]

great choice for the Cal Digit !

bob

[Joe Murray]

I can second a vote for Caldigit. I’ve had an HDPro for a couple of years now and it’s been rock solid. I’ve also gotten very good tech support from Jon and Leslie at Caldigit, and they seem to do a great job keeping their drivers up to date as Apple release update upon update to their OS.

Bob Zelin, I may need a SAN consultant…please email me offlist via my website contact link – http://www.editatjoes.com

thanks-

Joe Murray
Edit at Joe’s
Charlotte, NC

[Bob Zelin]

joe
my email is maxavid@cfl.rr.com
bob zelin