[NTLUG:Discuss] RE: true hardware/intelligent ATA RAID -- FRAID cards can get good desktop performance

[Richard Geoffrion]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kipton Moravec" <kip at kdream.com>
> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
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>> If the system is only for backup, why bother with RAID at all?  Just
>> compress and store.
>>
>> If the issue is hot swappability, then go with USB Drives.

It is my understanding that RAID-0 let's me chain two more hard drives
together to receive aggregate disk space.  The files that need to be stored
are already compressed on the source media.  The files that need to be
stored exceed the capacity of the largest single drive I have seen out in
the general market today.

The Gigabit segment is the current bottleneck of the system. If I go with
USB drives, I fear that the USB drives would become the bottleneck.  This is
based on past performance issues using USB drives for file backups.

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Richard