Server is our central storehouse for our CAD drawings in progress. You can add a hard drive within minutes to a regular network hub, says Whaley. It lets users access up to 16GB additional file storage. Jeff Hill, vice president of product marketing at Meridian, says the 32GB is more than twice as fast as previous models. It also supports Macintoshes.
All disk drives are hot swappable and mounted on slide-in shuttles.
The standard RAID configuration has four data drives and a parity drive. An advantage of this system is that IT managers and LAN administrators don t have to shut down the file server in order to install this product. If the file server ever goes down, the information on the CD-ROM server can still be accessed, explains Karen Soderquist. It s posted directly into the network. You can hold the content of at least 34 CD-ROMs on this one tower, says Soderquist.