On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Ronald Yeo wrote:
..
> The RAID controller is the HP 370 (built-in), although that's not my
> primary concern for this mobo. Unfortunately, it is not dual CPU. I
> think MAJ Mercado is correct about availability of dual CPU mobos for
> the AMD; I have looked around some sites and have not seen hide or
> hair of it. Another mistaken concept here is that this box is going to
> be a server; it is only going to be a server for my home network
> comprising of 2 notebooks and one desktop.
That ain't a RAID controller. That, and the Promise FasTrack RAID are
*software* RAID solutions. They use the CPU to do their magic. Granted,
the CPU hit is tiny (about 2% at full-bore on a PIII-500, running RAID5
with checksumming) but you can kiss hot-socket goodbye.
So if you need RAID for reliability (not uptime) Linux software RAID is
just as good as those so-called RAID "solutions." Besides, *real* IDE RAID
(like the Can o' RAID and Rack o' RAID, I forgot the company that makes
them) use a separate RAID controller card, which happens to accept IDE
drives instead of the more expensive SCSI.
Note that the ATA specs *does* handle hot-socket, it's just that these
cheapware IDE "RAID" solutions don't implement it.
I have experience using a Cyrix PR166 (133MHz CPU) as a file server. What
can I say.. it can handle four simultaneous StarCraft sessions (the
StarCraft data files and programs are stored on it, and four machines
mount the directory as a network drive). So for a little home-office type
setup, you don't need a fancy "server."
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