On Mon, May 18 at 10:38, Ian Park wrote: > I recently decided to upgrade my main desktop machine from a 2-disk > RAID0 array (2 x 320GB) to a 4-disk RAID5 array (4 x 320GB). I already > have / on a separate 150GB drive, so there are no concerns about trying > to boot from the RAID setup. So far, I've taken the cheap route and run > all the drives from the SATA ports on the motherboard (a Tyan Thunder, > with 2 x 2GHz Opteron dual core processors and a total of 8GB RAM).
Been running a 4 drive software RAID5 at work for a couple of years now on a 2.4GHz Intel Core2 processor. The software overhead hasn't been noticeable so I guess you'd have no problems either. SATA x4 straight off the motherboard. New workstation builds we've gone back to using RAID1 simply because disk capacity has got so stupidly high a pair of disks is all you need. -- Bob Dunlop -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------