Re: [SLE] Which motherboard/RAID controller for home file-server?
From: Pieter Hulshoff (phulshof_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 08/03/04
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:39:20 +0200 To: Niclas Arndt <niclas_arndt@hotmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:31:07AM +0200, Niclas Arndt wrote:
> You should only use 1 drive per IDE channel, set up as master. The way IDE
> is designed, a broken slave might well bring the whole channel down.
Isn't that the way I described it? Or are you talking about the extention scenario
where I want to use 2 arrays?
> You also don't want to use different interface standards / speeds on the
> same channel, as the channel (bus) will autonegotiate to the highest
> (hopefully) common standard / speed. DVD:s and CD-ROM:s are typically
> slower than hard drives.
That's why I put the DVD and Operating System disk on one channel, and
only use the masters of all other channels for my RAID-5 array. My OS
disk doesn't need a lot of speed, and the DVD drive is mostly for
installation purposes.
Regards,
Pieter Hulshoff
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