ata raid performance question
I have two ata/66 harddrives and I want to raid them together to make a super drive (for storage, as I have ultra160 serving as the boot device). If i get an ata/66 raid controller, I feel this would be inadequete and would not let me get the full performance possible.
I have two ata/66 harddrives and I want to "raid" them together to make a super drive (for storage, as I have ultra160 serving as the boot device). If i get an ata/66 raid controller, I feel this would be inadequete and would not let me get the full performance possible...I feel this way becuase I think the drives already go about 35megs/sec and together, that would exceed the rated 66megs/sec.....so if I want to get an array consisting of 2 ata/66 drives, I need to get an ata/100 card?? I feel this is true, but feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
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p3-700 (clocked to 1000)
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Voodoo5
ultra160
win2k
};
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you can still go raid, dont worry about that
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i have the abit hot rod pro 100 and it works great i would recomend it for both price and performance i had a promise fastrak 66 and it was an absolute peice of s.hit so i got the abit card and i can now i have no stability problems whatsoever. I use raid 0 with 2 ata 66 drives as my system drive.
With regaurds to your question i beleive that the 66 is for each drive but i could be wrong. anyway just get the abit card you will be happy
With regaurds to your question i beleive that the 66 is for each drive but i could be wrong. anyway just get the abit card you will be happy
What makes this Promise controller better than the Abit one? The abit one is super cheap as well. Also, no one has touched my question as to whether or not 2 ata/66 drives working in raid would be limited by an ata/66 raid controller.....let me give you an example:
ultra160 drives go at about 40meg/s...that leaves 120megs of bandwidth free on the SCSI channel....so you can have 4 drives running at raid0 and obtain optimal performance...If you put on 5 drives, then all drives would not be able to run at 40megs/sec...Is this true for ata? What if I have 2 highend ata drives (if such a thing exists=), that do 40megs/sec and put them on a raid/66 controller....then will each drive be limited to 33megs/sec?
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ultra160 drives go at about 40meg/s...that leaves 120megs of bandwidth free on the SCSI channel....so you can have 4 drives running at raid0 and obtain optimal performance...If you put on 5 drives, then all drives would not be able to run at 40megs/sec...Is this true for ata? What if I have 2 highend ata drives (if such a thing exists=), that do 40megs/sec and put them on a raid/66 controller....then will each drive be limited to 33megs/sec?
-oXide
this is one of the first reviews I found If I stumble over other ones Ill post them as well.
http://nospin.com/2000_02/009.html
http://nospin.com/2000_02/009.html
I'll post my HPT360 with 2X IBM 46G tommorow Raid 0 64K. Pretty good scores.
If you plan on having more than 2 HD's on an IDE RAID then your going to get less than optimal performance. The performance freaks only use Raid 0 with 1 HD on PM and 1 HD on SM. Any HD put on slave will work of course but you WILL get degraded performance because of the way IDE works.
If you plan on having more than 2 HD's on an IDE RAID then your going to get less than optimal performance. The performance freaks only use Raid 0 with 1 HD on PM and 1 HD on SM. Any HD put on slave will work of course but you WILL get degraded performance because of the way IDE works.
