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Blakhart · 06-29-2003, 04:03 PM

The software raid setups are doomed to failure, far as I am concerned. This is most of the ide raid cards. Hardware raid is another thing entirely. The convention is this; have a single fast drive for boot (os and certain utes, plus swapfile), and then raid the apps that you want to be fast.
A 15k rpm scsi boot drive, usualy 9gigs or so, followed by 4 15k rpm 18 or 36gig (and even larger, for the well to do) drives in raid is very common in raid systems. Well, at least some systems used for games/vid edit. They also often use a fat ide drive, even if it is only 5400rpm, for data and backups.
Scsi hardware raid cards are very expensive, as are 15k drives.
It all matters little in the grand scheme of things, raid is fun for bragging rights, and good for those who must have fast data.
Single ide drives will do everything you need, for the most part.
Me, I will take scsi, thanks.

06-29-2003, 04:03 PM	#9
Blakhart Banned Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: in harms way Posts: 2,768	The software raid setups are doomed to failure, far as I am concerned. This is most of the ide raid cards. Hardware raid is another thing entirely. The convention is this; have a single fast drive for boot (os and certain utes, plus swapfile), and then raid the apps that you want to be fast. A 15k rpm scsi boot drive, usualy 9gigs or so, followed by 4 15k rpm 18 or 36gig (and even larger, for the well to do) drives in raid is very common in raid systems. Well, at least some systems used for games/vid edit. They also often use a fat ide drive, even if it is only 5400rpm, for data and backups. Scsi hardware raid cards are very expensive, as are 15k drives. It all matters little in the grand scheme of things, raid is fun for bragging rights, and good for those who must have fast data. Single ide drives will do everything you need, for the most part. Me, I will take scsi, thanks. Last edited by Blakhart; 06-29-2003 at 04:11 PM.