Re: Cheap RAID system recommendation?

From: Rick Denoire <100.17706_at_germanynet.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:36:47 +0200
Message-ID: <of18mu84ddlrur93uftm9l3jlemv75hfuu@4ax.com>

Rich Teer <rich_at_rite-group.com> wrote:

>You're making the (all too common, alas) mistake of confusing
>the speed of the bus with the speed of the drive. The Ultra 160
>bus can tranfer 160 MB/S (or whatever), but you'll need several
>drives operating in parallel to achieve that. The individual
>drives will be much more limited.

No, sorry. I didn't confuse anything. I am not saying that one SCSI disk will achive 160 MB/s, I just said that the desired transfer rate of 70 MB/s can almost be reached by an individual fast harddisk using SCSI (precisely: Ultra160 SCSI).

And since we are talking about RAID anyway, Ultra160 should be the right bus for an array of disks.

Bye
Rick Received on Wed Aug 21 2002 - 17:36:47 CDT