Robizzle01
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I'm looking for an affordable raid 5 controller to use with four or five (I would prefer five) 200gb ata/100 hard drives. It also must work in Gentoo linux running on an amd64 system (if that makes any difference.)
(I picked up 3 drives on black friday for $20 each and a friend of mine bought two more for me since the limit per customer is 3.)
I started my search at newegg and quickly realized that I didn't know much about the subject. After further research, I have only become more confused.
First of all, PATA allows two devices to be connected to a single cable. Would a controller with two ide connectors allow me to connect 4 hard drives? None of the controllers that have only two ide connectors have support for raid 5 so i'm guessing the answer is no. Also, even if I could, would I want to or would this be a major bottleneck?
Next, how much slower is a controller that doesn't have support for hardware XOR? I imagine it would push all the calculations onto the processor but how bad would this be on a amd64 3000+?
Any other advice or links to additional reading would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help.
(I picked up 3 drives on black friday for $20 each and a friend of mine bought two more for me since the limit per customer is 3.)
I started my search at newegg and quickly realized that I didn't know much about the subject. After further research, I have only become more confused.
First of all, PATA allows two devices to be connected to a single cable. Would a controller with two ide connectors allow me to connect 4 hard drives? None of the controllers that have only two ide connectors have support for raid 5 so i'm guessing the answer is no. Also, even if I could, would I want to or would this be a major bottleneck?
Next, how much slower is a controller that doesn't have support for hardware XOR? I imagine it would push all the calculations onto the processor but how bad would this be on a amd64 3000+?
Any other advice or links to additional reading would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help.