On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 19:15 America/New_York, Nancy Haitz wrote:
Anyone have any strong opinions one way or the other on any of these cards?
On my B&W V1 box , I am now using a SIG II ULTRA ATA 133/100 IDE Controller PCI Card driving a single 12GB IDE hard drive. It is a bootable combo.
Prior to this setup , I was driving two each IBM 60GXP 40GB IDE hard drives in a Master-Master configuration. Both drives were bootable
For kicks, I configured RAID for a look-see.
In my opinion, unless you are running a big profession/commercial server complex , that is, running with the Big Boys, I would stay away from RAID
With RAID any anomaly/hickcup in the setup, either internal or external, wipes out all the data on both drives! This means that you need to have multiple backup systems up and running to protect your business files
With the low level type business stuff you are doing in the G3 B&W world, you will never notice the so called speed improvement ( thruput) that RAID is supposed to provide. At least, in my case, I never noticed any significant amount.
After a while, after numerous, unexplained crashes , I got tired of reformatting the RAID setup and reinstalling OS software/ files from a separate backup drive connected to the MOBO. ( good old Carbon Copy Cloner)
I returned to a dual-single ended configuration; using one drive as my working drive and the other as a mirrored backup drive and the MOBO drive as a backup-backup drive
My opinion only.
albert
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