About 5 years ago, no one was thinking of something like IDE RAID. The only option was hardware SCSI RAID. It was so expensive that, only high ranked servers had the priority to carry such hardware on them. Even expensive workstations didn't have that kind of luxury.
Companies like Highpoint and Promise introduced us to inexpensive IDE RAID products. It is so cheap that most of the top motherboards include IDE RAID on-board today, not to mention IDE hard drive prices, I even know of some TV sets that include hard drives inside. Magazines are publishing tricks to upgrade TiVo products to 120 GB drives. 40 GB drives are about 100 dollars these days.
The missing part from the story was the hot swap function and some compatibility problems on IDE RAID products. This product is the first product of its kind, the Accusys 7500. Hot swap IDE Raid for RAID 1 mirroring. You don't have to know anything about how to configure RAID 1 Mirroring or how to install drivers. It is so easy to install. Hot Swap luxury on your power user PC, workstation, or mission critical business PC.
