De mensen van X-Bit Labs hebben een review geproduceerd over de UltraTrak100 TX4 van Promise. Dit is een externe IDE RAID controller die via een Ultra2 SCSI kabel aan de computer verbonden kan worden. Het apparaat is uitgerust met een i960 processor, 16MB cache geheugen en tweetal Promise PDC20265R chips die samen RAID 5, 3, 0+1, 1 of 0 mogelijk maken. Verder is hotswap en hotspare functionaliteit aanwezig. De prestaties van het RAID-systeem zijn redelijk te noemen en de installatie is erg simpel: het apparaat wordt herkend als SCSI-hardeschijf. De reviewer concludeert dat de UltraTrak100 TX4 de ideale oplossing is voor bijvoorbeeld file archives van kleine bedrijven:
Promise UltraTRAK100 TX4 controller is a very interesting device boasting remarkable technologies and suitable for many application fields.
Since the controller works with IDE HDDs, we can get an external fault-tolerant array with extremely low storage space cost per 1GB (an array of the same size built of SCSI drives will cost us at least 4 times higher).
Although we should admit that this controller hasn't proven very fast, It had never been Promise's intention to make it the performance winner. The major aim was to make it easy to connect, setup and use, i.e. the company did its best to bring RAID technologies to average users. and they did succeed in it: the use of UltraTRAK100 TX4 is as easy as ABC.
Promise UltraTRAK100 TX4 controller is a very interesting device boasting remarkable technologies and suitable for many application fields.
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Hewlett, who was ousted as an HP director last week, leaving the company without a member of the Hewlett or Packard families on its board for the first time in its 63-year history, said in a statement that he would not appeal the ruling and would let the March 19 merger vote tally be certified.
"I will therefore now do everything possible to support the successful implementation of HP's acquisition of Compaq and encourage others who have shared my views in the past several months to do the same," he said.
Microsoft drop back a couple of percentage points this month, primarily attributable to the reaping of around a million expired sites at homestead.com. Homestead used to offer limited free hosting supported by advertising, but has revised its business model. As of April 15th has announced that it is migrating to a traditional paid-for services model.
The list we've seen includes Gigabyte, Triplex, ECS, Diligent, CP, Transcend, Soyo, Jaton, Clud 3D, Joytech, Chaintech, Anya, Aopen and Pinview. But sources close to both Chaintech and to Aopen in Europe are denying that they have signed up to support Xabre, despite what the SIS sources claim.

"The Intel Itanium will be a failure because it doesn't obey the immutable laws of our industry," Sanders said. "There are only two outcomes: 1) Dell will adopt Hammer, or 2) Intel will come out with an x86-64 (processor)."
Q: Why did WHOIS change? Where has the old functionality gone?

"This is either a ploy by the 10 members of the Hynix board, trying to force better terms from Micron, or it is extremely stupid. Unless the memory market recovers significantly, Hynix is in trouble. Sooner or later, with the level of debt facing Hynix, it is going to die a natural death. Only those with deep pockets are going to survive in this industry."
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