Or, does that mean for constant use, such as in servers, and doesn't apply to home use, where the drive may be powered up, but not actually spun up and being used in R/W situations.
keith whaley
Markus Maurer wrote:
Hi Alex I've been there with several promise controllers on 01 Raids (with 4 ide drives spanning/mirroring) Most servers, where raid is mostly used, run 24 hours nonstop, IDE drives are simply not constructed for this. (IBM says that). The problem is the hard disks quality, not the RAID controller. The controllers you mentioned are okay, the drivers not always, and a software raid under Windows 2000 is nearly as fast. (German CT magazine tested that too, look at www.heise.de) I stay with my opinion, that dos not mean a raid array can not be of value to you, I spoke only about security :-)
happy computing Markus
