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IDE RAID O is faster than one IDE Drive because each drive only has to write
half the amount of data. Raid is a good alternative to SCSI for someone
like me who wants better than plain old IDE performance, but doesn not want
to shell out for a 15,000rpm drive and controller. Remember, RAID sdtands
for Rendundant Array of Inexepensive Disks :)
Cheers,
> I've never setup a IDE RAID before, I cannot tell the performance, but
from
> all the reviews I've read, there is no real performance lead (because the
> IDE limit, computer still cannot access more than one IDE device at a
time).
> The only advantage you can take is that you can have upto 4 IDE drives act
> like one big drive. If you really want to speed, SCSI is the only way to
> go.
>
> RAID can be either software or hardware, eg NT and win2k can set software
> RAID 0,1 or 5. If you use a RAID card, it will be hardware RAID controlled
> by the card.
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