Re: [Sheflug] ide raid card

[Gary Stimson <gary [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 22:28 17/06/03 +0100, Steve wrote:
> Yep, I agree with you here Gary 100%. I bought that same RocketRAID card
> around 8 months ago.  The drivers are absolute garbage,
>
> About the only good thing Ive found with it is the performance of singles
> drives that are attached, but not belonging to an array, as you are doing.
>
> Software RAID is something Ive never honestly tried. Anybody have
> significant experience of this ?
>
> It might just make my card not such a joke after all!

I'm using it as a backup filestore, rsync'ing the data from other machines 
on to it regularly. (This means my backups get done regularly!)

It's running on an old 266MHz K6-2 machine. I just tried a write test, 
making a duplicate of a 6.5GB directory to the same partition. I got a 
write speed of 4.7MB/s (megabytes) which isn't fantastic. However, I don't 
know how fast that motherboard could handle natively.

Linux's software RAID itself is well regarded.
There's a review of IDE RAID cards at Tom's Hardware
http://www17.tomshardware.com/storage/20021112/index.html

Gary


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