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DECEMBER 2004

Product Review
R-Quest's TCR-4000 Duplicator
By Mitchell Levine

Mathematics teachers perennially complain that students lack statistics literacy. Here's some scary ones: an estimated 1 in 500 data centers will experience a critical hardware failure serious enough to cause a severe “data disaster.” And of that misfortunate .002 percent of commercial enterprises whom will experience such a catastrophe, 29 percent will never reopen. Schools must, of course, reopen, which changes the economics of data loss, but the impact may even be greater. How can a price be put on that information which represents the basics of education? Grades, discipline, vital health information—what would happen if a severe system crash erased all of this key data?

R-Quest's TCR-4000 provides an industrial strength solution priced right for the education vertical market. Using its RAIDCase technology, it offers real time data mirroring that not only protects against evils like human error, viruses, and software corruption, it can even allow your system to continue operating during a complete hard drive failure. That type of catastrophic failure is rare in a typical education technology environment, but, given the severe slashing of IT budgets in the current fiscal crisis, how could any administrator responsibly deny the efficacy of stopping a problem before it even began?

The TCR-4000 installed easily on our test system, and survived all of our simulated “crash tests.” Although a bit more expensive initially than some other solutions, the versatility and power of this peripheral cannot be overstated. Particularly valuable for the education market is the newly added Mac networking capabilities provided for the TCR-4000's system optimization; G-4, G-44, and G-5 users throughout the New York City schools will be able take full advantage. For more information: log on to www.r-quest.com.#

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