[plug] Disk striping

[Bill Kenworthy]

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
> 
>