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Hi Florian, |
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on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:29:07PM +0200, you wrote: |
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> Note1: NEVER EVER build some kind of RAID other than "Linear" (also called |
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> JBOD) over two IDE disks on the same cable. Performance will suffer greatly |
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> as will security because most simple onboard controllers can't handle a |
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> dying disk and that one might take the other one with it into death. |
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Your suggestions sound reasonable (as reasonable as you get if one |
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insists on going with the drives that are there instead of getting a |
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third 500G drive that is :) [and for RAID5 I'd add a cheapish SATA |
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controller as well]) but I wonder why the above should be better than a |
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RAID0. The risk is the same---if either disk dies, the partition is |
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fuct. And considering drive mechanics are still the slowest part of the |
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system, even two EIDE disks that tend fight for the bus should be a tad |
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faster when striped than any one alone, which is what you effectively |
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get in a JBOD, right? |
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cheers, |
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Matthias |
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