The problem with IDE drives comes down to the fact that you can only hang a maximum of 4 or 8 (if the mobo supports it) drives off the system and what do you do for a CD. I had a server in my old office (www.drastictech.com MS unfortunately) with a Digidata raid controller on it and 3 chassis of drives. Each chassis was made up of 9 Seagate 36GB Cheetah U160 drives in a RAID 4 config (8 data, 1 parity). Under NT 4, we could get 92 MB/s for video streaming and a capacity of 860GB.
If you want real speed and capacity, you need to step up to Fibre Channel. We built an uncompressed HD Video recorder with 2 1Gbit/s fibre loops and 2 chassis of Eurologic/ Seagate FC drives and we managed to sustain 180 GBytes/s. -- Patrick Rea http://www.patrickrea.org Want to reduce your IT budget? Ask me how to eliminate MS Windows from your networks and watch your ROI grow. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
