-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 R.Scott Belford wrote:
| I am saddened Don't be sad, I was just learning that the RAID is in-fact software-based and all 160 gigs will be usable. The more hard-drives, the merrier. But back to the tech stuff. I just had a thought about videl but I could certainly be thinking wrongly with my limited knowledge about videl. ~ "Software-RAID, by its very software nature, tends to be more flexible than a hardware solution. The downside is that it of course requires more CPU cycles and power to run well than a comparable hardware system." Does videl have an available PCI slot? If we still got the low-end 60G (and it still fits) and spent $20 on a ATA RAID controller we could stop doing the software RAID thing and improve performance and reduce CPU usage. It was my understanding that videl is worked very hard in cpu/memory. In my limited experience, i've only compared the performance benefits of moving software->hardware using SCSI so I am uncertain about the level of benefit of moving to true RAID via IDE. Also these RAID 0/1 controllers may be so low-end that they may not even be comparable to today's software implication in Linux. Of course, thats a lot of drives and videl would at least have to be a 2u or a very fancy 1u to fit them all in or have a ballsy PSU. Tom Tom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/z5n2SM0VWiAMmtsRAh/XAJ0QRWpxuTDuQaVUtOm+Yp28dETTFgCfVXyw tkQ4d0V8AUmkUttgA0Taow8= =TeDV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
