Re: Install Linux on RAID-0 with existing WindowsXP (dual-boot)

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:10:27 GMT, AZ Nomad <aznomad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you priced 600GB ide drives?

Having a pair of 300GB drives is a hell of a lot cheaper.
twice the storage

twice the performance

Only with multi-process access with light CPU loading, hope your benchmarks
show you that get an advantage

one half the reliability
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think less than a half, as a striping error wipes both drives, but as
long as the data is 'don't care if it disappears', who cares?

But trusting RAID0 to hold data in a windoze box, you're brave ;)

Grant.
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