I was more thinking in terms of them doing a hardware
solution cheaply, they obviously have the drives all
ready if they are contemplating software raid, so for
another $80 they can have a hardware raid card and
much better performance (i imagine :-)
> From: C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2002/05/24 Fri AM 11:04:09 GMT+12:00
> To: Jeremy Bertenshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Software RAID
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> As with scsi raid arrays, its not the cost of the card thats the
> problem, its the cost of N matching drives.
>
> I'd imagine that four matching 100Gb drives would be a reasonable start,
> and thats $2000 worth :-\
>
> On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 10:40, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
> > http://www.tastech.co.nz/ have an ide raid card
> > for $80 in their misc section, I guess if anyone
> > is interested they could enquire about chipset etc.
> >
> > jeremyb.
> >
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