The reason why the Promise card worked is because it supports hot swapping, whereas the Highpoint doesn't.
I'm using 2 x 40GB Maxtor's in RAID 0, which seems to be quite popular judging from this thread. Wish I could afford SCSI RAID 5
OK, so that may well just be an evil thing to say to pennyless little me. But what kinda size can you get Non-Volatile SSD's in now anyhoo? Last I saw they were only up to around 3GB, but then I haven't really looked into it and if what I just said was stupid I blame it on me being female...
lmao, when I blame it on someone being a woman, I normally get a slap round the chops. As for SSD, I think they come in higher capacities, I'm not sure. I'll have to dig out that last piece of information I had on em.
Well, I found the SSD link I was thinking of and, well, judge for yourself. up to 399GB with sustained R/W of 370MB/s http://www.bitmicro.com/index.html
I have 2 80Gb western digitals and want to put them in raid is this a good idea (8Mb ones ) using onboard raid either 0 or 1 on the soyo platinum
Well, what do you want to do? RAID 0 is faster, but if a drive goes down you lose all the data. RAID 1 mirrors all the data, so you lose half of the capacity, and writes are slower but if a drive fails your data survives.
i dont see how everyone keeps talking about the drives crashing in raid 0 does it go down in reliability or something or is it just a disadvantage i never had a drive crash on me, well you cant count crashes
It's simple statistics. In a 2 drive RAID0 array, you're twice as likely to have a disk failure because you've twice as many drives. 3 drives, 3 times as likely, 4 drives, 4 times and so on. This is of course dependent on how you care for your drives. Look after them properly, and the odds of a failure go down. Abuse them, and they go up immeasurably.
my next purchase is hopefully going to be fiber channel.... as many scsi drives as i can fit running in raid 5.....
