Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:42:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IDE causes a bit of a performance hit, I don't think we're talking high > speed file access here though... cheap is the objective. You'd be suprised at the performance hit. I had 2 drives/channel and suffered from really bad performance with the on-board Ultra66 controller. I installed a PCI controller (Promise Ultra 66) and put every drive on its own channel. Things are much happier now and about 3x faster. The best part is that the card only costs about $25. You might be better off getting a more reliable motherboard, such as an ASUS CUSL2 (for Intel) or ASUS A7V133 (For AMD) and putting PCI controllers in. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] Money can't buy love. But it CAN rent a very close imitation.
Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:50:26PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > The IBM SCSI disk I have here has a jumper to delay spin up depending on > SCSI ID so that an array of those would spin up sequentially if they all > had those jumper set (and different IDs, which they need anyway). Maybe > there are IDE drives built with RAIDs in mind offering some similar > option? I doubt it, but with a sufficiently large case (or small power supply) it may be possible to stick a 2nd (or 3rd) power supply in. Drives could be plugged into the second PS while the MB is powered off of the primary PS. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just think: in a few million years, Barney will be motor oil.
