[plug] Disk striping

[Russell Hobman]

Goodaye, I have just bought (last month) a promise fastrak from mcg in
Perth. cheers, Russell

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Kenworthy [SMTP:billk at iinet.net.au]
> Sent:	Saturday, September 29, 2001 12:34 PM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [plug] Disk striping
> 
> Tpoical - I just came back from trying to get a promise ide raid board -
> out of stock.  Does anyone know where I can get the ata100 board at a
> reasonable cost.  Austins said the Oz supplier had closed shop.
> 
> Gary, the advantage is that with raid 0, you write one "stripe" of data
> to one disk, the next "stripe" to the next disk and so on.  There can be
> quite a speed up if the geometry matching is done correctly as you are
> writing data, effectively in parallel, bypassing the time delay for the
> mechanical part of the write cycle when using one disk.
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 12:00, garry wrote:
> > OK, thanks..
> > Garry.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Well that's called RAID 0 and can be done in software with linux, or
> with
> > > special hardware. onboard (motherboard) IDE raid is getting quite
> popular 
> > with
> > > the better motherboards now.
> > > 
> > > Later,
> > > 
> > > Jason Nicholls
> > 
> > 
> 
>