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More info?)
According to my (English language) manual, Section 5.6, page 5-19, the
Promise RAID controller will support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and
multi-RAID (not sure what that is!), using the SATA connections & the
parallel RAID connection.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:00:37 -0600, "tk" <tk@home.com> wrote:
>I could understand the fear of raid 0 in days past but with DVD burners
>and media being sooo cheap who cares if you lose it? Sure don't use
>on a business machine and if you do taxes, Quicken any other important
>stuff you should already be backing up to something other than internal
>drives anyway.
>
>I have two 160 gig drives in raid 0 and I have everything on em backed up.
>
>
>
>"biors" <biors@club-internet.fr> wrote in message
>news:41f38691$0$2540$636a15ce@news.free.fr...
>> Thank's for your advises....
>> Man BIORS
>>
>> "Mercury" <me@spam.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
>> csul5j$lvk$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>> AFAIK raid 5 is not available on the promise controller.
>>> RAID 0 - faster reads / writes, greatly reduced data security
>>> RAID 1 - faster reads, mirrored data.
>>> RAID 0+1 - best of both worlds, requires 4 drives minimum
>>> RAID 5 - faster reads, slower writes.
>>>
>>> If you can afford it and want resilience to drive failure (not human
>>> stupidity), use RAID 1.
>>> RAID 0 should not be used unless you are prepared to lose all data in the
>>> event of a drive failure.
>>>
>>> With the reduced cost of drives and increase in performance of RAID 0+1
>>> (aka raid 10), RAID 5 is becoming less common.
>>>
>>> You can buy add in cards that will do raid 5 very well. See
>>> www.tomshardware.com for some reviews.
>>>
>>> To have resilience to human stupidity, you need a good backup system,
>>> undelete utility, user education, and security...
>>>
>>> "biors" <biors@club-internet.fr> wrote in message
>>> news:41f2383b$0$1030$626a14ce@news.free.fr...
>>>> HI,
>>>> I just want to know if is it possible to do raid 0+1 (raid 5) with this
>>>> MB.
>>>> For me Raid 0+1 means 3 HD and performance of Raid 0 stripping an raid 1
>>>> security by error control.
>>>>
>>>> 1) is this feature enabled with the promise controller
>>>> 2) where can I find the settings and the performances?
>>>>
>>>> Thank's
>>>> MAN BIORS
>>>> FRANCE
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
Dave Gillingham
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