> >Agreed. I have three systems right now that are fully RAIDed, one a >high use server, a personal server, and my personal workstation, all of >which use software raid, one of which uses a PCI-IDE card (promise >tx-2000 or something) to add the extra channels that are needed.
I use one of Promise's cheaper controllers to add a few channels and it works flawlessly. > >Not noticably. The hdparm numbers are a bit lower than say, RAID0 >(obviously) but faster than each drive individually. I haven't noticed >any processor lag on either system I have that uses RAID5. > Thanks. I'll proceed on the assumption that I won't have any problems and order my drives sometime in the next couple of weeks. -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
