I've got a box full of cables if you need one Carl. Lance B
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Hi, I'm planning on setting up software RAID 1 on a p3-600 at home. At the moment, I have both HDD on the primary ide (hda and hdb). Individually hdparm -t reports about 26MB/s, but running hdparm -t on both disks at the same time reports 13 MB/s. I suspect that putting one of the drives on the secondary IDE will result in better overall performance, but I'm not sure. Does anyone know? I would have tried it out myself, except I don't have any spare IDE cables (they only need to be 40 wire ones). I did have a bunch spare, but gave them away a while back. So, will the performance boost be worth getting another IDE cable? The machine will be serving on a 100Mbit home LAN, so the network might be the bottle-neck rather than the disk read/write spead. Cheers, Carl.
