Re: IDE hotplug support?

[Jakob Østergaard]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:22:00PM -0700, Jeff Nguyen wrote:
> You can get a sustained read speed of 80MB/s on the Adaptec 2000S
> Zero Channel RAID with 7 drives (RAID-5). But the sustained write
> speed is only around 32MB/s.
> 
> On the other hand, the 3Ware Escalade 7850 can sustain a read speed
> of 130MB/s with 8 drives (RAID-5). The write speed is 30MB/s.

So for both cards, the solution with simple IDE controllers, all on
one PCI bus, would be faster not only on RAID-5, but also RAID-1+0.

Or am I missing something ?

(I know, the IDE cabling is going to be *hell* for 15 drives if you
 want to stay within spec, and I would go SCSI or FC before that myself)

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