yes Matt that's true.. you can add more controllers for ATA... kind of like adding a second engine to make your car go faster... kidding...
striping w/o parity... only good version of that would be RAID 0+1... here a RAID brief comparison: http://www.raidweb.com/whatis.html -paris Paris Lundis Founder Areaindex, L.L.C. http://www.areaindex.com http://www.pubcrawler.com (p) 1-212-655-4477 [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] [connecting people, places and things] -----Original Message----- From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: [SOT] Server Hard Drives > SCSI has been better because of throughput and disk speed until > recently... > now its more of a simultaneous channels available to speak to either > format... the latest ATA stuff is very comparable with SCSI and costs far > less. > You simply buy more ATA controllers to get comparable performance. > RAID is an excellent technology for file servers in offices.. online wise > it > has some performance impact undoubtedly... moreover, your disk wont > perform > at 100% due to multiple copies and striping info being wrote vs. one file > write... > That is not true for all levels of RAID. Specifically, stripping without parity can result in a significant performance increase. -Matt ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
