Re: [TCLUG:6384] Cheap high-volume backups?

[kotek@postal.oath.net]

Well a software raid uses up major CPU performance, and most people do not want to invest the 2K-5K for a hardware raid controler.  And now with the speed of some UltraDMA drives out there they are giving scsi a run for it's money.

Jon



> 
> Of course, you could just use software raid in Linux instead.. if you want
> to run a real RAID setup, you might as well go with hardware scsi raid.
> It's not worth investing any cash into a hardware IDE raid setup, IMO..
> 
> ----
> Nate Carlson
> the infinite loop
> natecars@infiniteloop.com
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 kotek@oath.net wrote:
> 
> > Well how about doing IDE RAID? I am currently looking into this right now.
> > http://www.arcoide.com/
> > the system itself sees only one hard drive for every two drives you have connected, at 225 bucks it seems like a good solution.
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > >   Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Dan Willenbring wrote:
> > > 
> > > > How about a 20 gig IDE HDD?  They are only $250-300 and it wouldn't take
> > > > long at all to transfer all that data...  It wont be much for scalability
> > > > and it's not very robust, but if your looking for fast, big and cheap it's
> > > > the route I would go.
> > > 
> > > Well, basically I already have four IDE devices - 3 HDDs and a CDROM.
> > > 
> > > Also... there seems to be a problem with copying from IDE1 to IDE0... as
> > > in ripping a CD onto hda1/ I don't know why, maybe my hda1 is faulty,
> > > maybe my MBoard is... in any case, I need to do this backup in less than
> > > 20 days so I don't have time to replace drives/mboards...
> > > 
> > > -Yaron
> > > 
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