Well what would be the fastest 4 or 8-channel hardware RAID5 device in
your opinion?
I'll be using it mainly for an FTP fileserver serving both large
(500m-1gig) and small files to upwards of 30 clients.
Looking to start off with 4x 160Gig SATA 7200RPM 8meg cache drives
(Western digital or Hitachi probbaly).
Have considered RAID0, and raid0+1, but the former offers no fallback in
case of drive failure and the latter doesn't offer enough
capacity-to-drivecount, so 8-channel hardware RAID5 would seem to be the
best option in the long run.
John Coleman
Hardware Officer
Computer Society
NUI, Galway
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Paul Kelly wrote:
> John P. Looney wrote:
> > We got some from encom.ie and they kick ass. Just got an 8 port job last
> > month, for under 500 euro.
>> It has to be said they're not the fastest of devices, particularly for
> random access.
>> Paul.
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