RAID image storage (OT)
2008-03-14 by Rick Colson
Just a caution about an EBay seller (superldg) who offers inexpensive multi-bay drive cases: I know that many photographers, myself included, have been looking for cost effective RAID solutions. Don't expect to get one from this seller: superldg. I have had a dual drive Firewire to IDE case from him that never worked properly. (Spontaneously "unmounts" from the desktop, often in mid operation.) His responses to my emails have always been evasive and uncooperative and he always blames the problems with his case on the drive manufacturer, Apple, some other software vendor, Oxford (the maker of the chip in the case) etc. He has never, after numerous emails, offered a solution to the problem or offered to fix or replace the case. I have spent far more than the cost of the case trying to get it to work, with different hard drives, different computers etc. all to no avail. Avoid this guy's cases like the plague. Rick Colson