Chris Hoogendyk schrieb: > raid0 for holding disk should be just fine. > > any chance of going SAS or scsi?
hmm, I'd prefer to stay with the SATAs I already have here. Currently I testdrive a RAID0 of two partitions on the two SATAs ... I will also check for a third SATA-port on the motherboard to maybe add one of my other SATAs (still have some 250GB and 500GB drives around). It's more of workstation-hardware than server-hardware ... so it's a bit limited. > does the adaptec have another inteface? Sure, yes, but the capacity of SCSI-drives won't be sufficient here or at least the drives would be expensive. Otoh HP recommends not to run tapedrive and harddisk on one SCSI-controller (in a guide for optimizing performance with Ultrium-1-drives ...) so I'd like to stay away from any more scsi-hdd. > the minimum & maximum writing speeds can be drive dependent, but for > LTO2 it should be 40 max and it might be 20 minimum. I would guess if > you can keep it above 20 you won't get shoe shining. You're very close > to that, but if you hit it, the drop in speed would be dramatic. Afaik ultrium2 adjusts down to around 9 MB/sec or something like that, so I assume I didn't get any shoeshining so far. Thanks for your feedback, Stefan
