RAID 0 will increase your performance for HD writing, Definitely do not
want them on the same controller. Keep in mind, if one of the HD's
fails, you will lose all of your data (since it has no fault
tolerance). Might want to consider looking for a RAID IDE card. These
will let you set up IDE drives in RAID 0,1 or 5, (RAID 1 without the
performance hit). If you could rustle up a 3rd HD, you could consider a
RAID 5. Promise makes a good product
http://www.promise.com/product/product_list_eng.asp?familyId=2
Most of their cards have Linux drivers available.
Another good place to poke around is www.pricewatch.com... but be
careful shopping there.
Pete
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 18:48, Craig Zeigler wrote:
> RAID 0 on IDE is actually pretty quick. I would sugguest not slaving any
> devices off of the drives. If you can, put them on their own controller
> (any off board IDE controller would do pretty well for them)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth W Hansen [mailto:khansen46@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 6:20 PM
> To: Suncoast Linux
> Subject: [SLUG] RAID 0 on IDE
>
>
> I've been reading about RAID devices, and I'm curious
> to try one out. I'm interested in RAID 0 on IDE, to
> see if it can help the performance of my system a
> little. i also want to try it just for the experience.
> Here's my system:
> AMD K6/2 350
> 256 SDRAM
> (2) 4 gig HD
> CD ROM
> CD Burner
> Currently running ELX Linux
>
>
> I know that I need to put the HDs on seperate IDE
> controllers. Will having the CD ROM and/or CD burner
> as slaves hurt?
> On an old system like this, will I notice much (any)
> increase in performance?
> Is there anything else I should know before I try
> this?
>
> Thanks.
> Ken
>
>
>
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