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[lhgpoobaa]

yes. sorter cables = less errors, plus the IDE protocol has some ability to handle data corruption to start with.

and i didnt INTENTIONALLY disable dma!
it just happened. win2k on this pc does it from time to time, specially after driver updates.

my ricoh pretty much starts and finished at 12x. simple.

the only non cd-rw drive i can think of that does high speed dae would have to be the liteon 16x dvd. another reason why its one of the most popular dvd drives.

cd quality... hmmm. i generally go for slightly better ones. had 2 cd's go bad from memory... 1 was generic, the other codak gold.

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[phsstpok]

Here's a link for bus and I/O information.

<A HREF="http://www.techfest.com/hardware/bus.htm" target="_new">http://www.techfest.com/hardware/bus.htm</A>



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[Vince604]

alright then thanks

really? haha I thought you were testing it without DMA..
okay I see. Not sure with win2k as I'm using winXP Pro.

okay. So if I compared liteon with Pioneer in terms of quality/performance which one would be better?


alright then I'll just get some Mitsui ones...

and thx phsstpok for the site. Great info. on it!

 

[lhgpoobaa]

quality about the same
performace the liteon wins a bit
48x cd vs 40x cd and better DAE.

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[Vince604]

alright then..
yeah I can see now as I'm looking at the liteon site.. problem is that it's not a slot load...

if I do Raid 0 + 1, does that mean I have to have each hardrive on a different channel or something?? I was reading an article and it said:
"you must run 1:1 mirrors only by connecting each drive to a different IDE channel, because otherwise both drives will fail and you won't get anything out of the mirror-situation"

or what does the above all mean to solve the situation..
have one drive as primary and the other secondary?
or would I need two ide cables and have each one primary?...
didn't quite understand but hope you can help explain this to me.
Thank you. appreciate it all.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

i would figure that that means for your 4 drive raid 0+1 that u have 2 choices
have both raid0 devices on one channel and their mirrors on the other, or one raid0 drive on each channel, with its mirror on the opposite channels secondary position.

best if you read the raid manual.

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[Vince604]

hmm okay then.. I'll take a look..
well is it really necessary to have a 4 drive raid?.. would 2 be sufficient?..

looking at RAID 3 and 5 it has a lot better performance.. but how about data safety?..
I mean if one drive went down wouldn't everything else go down as each drive has certain important information on it?..

 

[lakedude]

Are you really getting anything we tell you or are you just trying to make this thread longer then the sign in/out thread?

hmm okay then.. I'll take a look..
well is it really necessary to have a 4 drive raid?.. would 2 be sufficient?..

A 2 drive raid is not necessary. In fact your whole system is not necessary. Everything you do on a computer you could do some other way if you chose. It is summer go out and play.

Here is the deal:

With one drive you have no options orher then making a partition.

With two drives you have two options. You can mirror them and be safer and slower then a single drive or you can stripe em and be faster but increase the chance for data failure.

With 4 drives your choices go up. You could stripe all 4 and be really fast but quadruple your chance for data failure. You could make mirrors of mirrors and make the chance of loosing data almost nothing or you could do both striping and mirroring and have both a speed increase and an added reliablity factor. It all depends on what you want to do. Please decide what you want first and ask questions second.

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[Vince604]

oh I get what everyone is telling me. I just want to hear what people have experienced with and what they prefer and what problems you can get into..

yes you can do it in someother way but I want the best or most preferred option..
it's not summer until another two months for me..

alright then.
well sorry I just want to see what people prefer... and if you don't want to reply to the post then you don't have to..

 

[lhgpoobaa]

there is NO right way

just different ways with differing levels of complexity, reliability, data security and cost.

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[ath0mps0]

Yeah the 6000 series is new but other than how many drives it can hold and do raid 5 is it any different from the FastTrak100 TX4 where it doesn't have RAID 5 but can support 4 drives?..

The 6000 is significantly different from the TX4.

1) Onboard I/O processor - reduces CPU utilization like a SCSI adapter (RAID or non-RAID).

2) Can take up to 6 ATA/IDE drives.

3) Supports RAID 5 and JBOD.

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[Vince604]

Okay I see... No wonder it's costing so much!
In your opinion would you rather have 0+1 or Raid 5?