[geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>Date: 2006/08/23 Wed AM 11:01:33 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Princeton Univ. Surplus haul today...

>Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> OS/X 10.4 gives me the option to do a mirror (RAID 1) or striped (RAID 0) filesystem, if I put another 100 Meg IDE HD on the same on-board controller will I get a performance improvement with RAID 1, or is the on-board controller "bad"?
>
>If they're on the same channel, you won't get a speed boost because only 
>one IDE device per channel can talk at any given time.

So striped might be of use (if I wanted to go to 200 Gig of storage in one HD image), but mirrored would actually slow the system down - unless I strip out the IDE Zip Drive and put the other 100 Gig HD on the channel with the DVD-ROM drive...

Thanks,

Lionel