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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: RAID for the Amiga?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 19:13:27 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- Jonas Elfstr÷m <jonas@plea.se> writes:
-
- >I don't think there is a software RAID feature for the Amiga...
- >(correct me if I'm wrong)
-
- I think you are right.
-
- >I think that some of the device gurus out there should be able
- >to create the simplest form of RAID and that is to STRIPE disks.
-
- Indeed, but why ?
-
- >The speed increase is enourmous, almost x times faster / disk!
-
- Of course this requires that your I/O channel can handle this high
- rate. Very few Amigas have such fast I/O channels.
-
- >If the "RAID-device" uses the devices available (scsi.device and others)
- >then this could be done by having equally big partitions on each
- >device and the STRIPE-set could even be spread between IDE and SCSI!
-
- Well, for best speed you would require equally fast disks. Also,
- a simple RAID with no error correction is a bit dangerous. Any
- disk that fails will make you lose _all_ your data.
-
- So.. it is surely possible. The latest NetBSD even has support for this.
- But for most Amigas it is not very useful.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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