On lørdag 10 september 2005, 23:02, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> >The first is a dirt cheap Sunsway Sil 3112-based card, i.e.
> > fakeraid.
>
> How "old" is your PC?
Pretty exactly 4 years old. It has the last generation of Athlon T-Bird
CPUs.
> On my 2ghz AthlonXP I have onbo
Kind regards
Hans du Plooy
SagacIT (Pty) Ltd
hansdp at sagacit dot com
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
On lørdag 10 september 2005, 12:52, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
off your back?
Eh, right!
You did not get any recommendations. Your reason for purchase is
appealing. But the price differe
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
The first is a dirt cheap Sunsway Sil 3112-based card, i.e. fakeraid.
How "old" is your PC? On my 2ghz AthlonXP I have onboard VIA (fakeraid)
plus a PCI Sil 3112a card. Raid-5 over four SATA discs give me in
excess of 50MB/s sustained write, depending on what I'm copyin
I read on one of the the postgres mailing list a while back that battery
backup makes a huge difference on the LSI SCSI RAID cards, and I know
that at least some of the Areca cards takes a battery.
The other thing that I picked up there was that non-SCSI disks routinely
lie about when data being c
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:39:57 +0200
Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm finally back after getting a nasty project on my back, and I have a
> question... I'm thinking about buying a hardware RAID controller for my
> desktop. The main reason I don't want to go with softwar
On lørdag 10 september 2005, 12:52, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> off your back?
Eh, right!
>
> You did not get any recommendations. Your reason for purchase is
> appealing. But the price differences are huge.
Yep, I didn't get any very specific recommendations, but a lot of good
information, many t
Kind regards
Hans du Plooy
SagacIT (Pty) Ltd
hansdp at sagacit dot com
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
question... I'm thinking about buying a hardware RAID controller for
my desktop. The main reason I don't want to go with software RAID is
that my mobo IDE controllers are allready full with other stu
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
Hi all!
I'm finally back after getting a nasty project on my back, and I have a
off your back?
question... I'm thinking about buying a hardware RAID controller for my
desktop. The main reason I don't want to go with software RAID is that
my mobo IDE controllers are
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:39:57PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> I'm not doing it for performance, just for reliability.
Good idea. Make sure you get something with monitoring tools that will
alert you if you lose a disk. RAID doesn't help much when you're
running with a blown disk and don't
On 2005-09-07T23:39:57+0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> Now, what I was thinking: If I buy a four channel RAID card now, and two
> S-ATA disks (which is what I want), set them up in RAID 1, can I add a
> third disk later, and convert this system seamlessly to RAID 5 without
> a reinstall?
Some c
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