Anybody tried a Raid1 or Raid5 on USB2.
If so did it crawl or was it usable ?
Many thanks
Ken :o)
I have a USB raid5 consisting of 4 200GB drives. hdparm -t on the md device
gives 42 MB/s, which is nearly twice as fast as the internal drive (this is
a laptop). Since the RAID is storing large
Anybody tried a Raid1 or Raid5 on USB2.
If so did it crawl or was it usable ?
Why not external SATA ?
After all, the little cute SATA cables are a lot more suited to this than
the old, ugly flat PATA cables...
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On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, PFC wrote:
Anybody tried a Raid1 or Raid5 on USB2.
If so did it crawl or was it usable ?
Why not external SATA ?
After all, the little cute SATA cables are a lot more suited to this
than
the old, ugly flat PATA cables...
Until you break a motherboard or
2006/2/17, Ken Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Anybody tried a Raid1 or Raid5 on USB2.
If so did it crawl or was it usable ?
Many thanks
Ken :o)
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I have a six disk RAID-5 array that I run using embedded Linux
(coLinux) to serve the array up using Samba to my Windows XP OS.
I've been doing this for a number of months (the dark tale is explained at:
http://a1.blogspot.com/2005/08/step-by-step-to-windows-raid-using.html),
and have had no data
Ken Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anybody tried a Raid1 or Raid5 on USB2.
If so did it crawl or was it usable ?
Yes, I used this for two by two drive RAID-1 arrays.
It was usable, but not pleasantly. The machine became very I/O bound,
with human scale delays introduced into previously
