The RAID Array 4100 (RA4100) is an external Fibre Channel storage product that has won numerous awards and industry accolades for outstanding scalability, flexibility and connectivity. Now Compaq has added multi-platform Intel-based server support to the RA4100. The RA4100 utilizes the new "universal" drive carrier and will support a maximum of twelve, 1" Ultra2 hard drives in a single enclosure. With increasing storage growth and investments, customers are demanding easy to manage storage solutions, that simplify deployment and management, and above all, lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The universal drive support on the RA4100 now achieves these benefits by enabling hot-swapping and migration of hard disk drives among the RA4100, StorageWorks Enclosure 4200 family, ProLiant Servers and Alpha servers. Now Compaq customers can buy hard disk drives for their entire enterprise, from departmental servers to the data center, without the confusion of disk and drive tray incompatibilities.