Hello Alan.

09 Jun 06 12:42, you wrote to me:

 AI> Jeff Smith wrote to Alan Ianson:

 JS>  AI>> Your using scsi eh? I don't think you'll see a big difference
 JS>  AI>> in sata then. I have never used an scsi myself but they are
 JS>  AI>> faster than the IDE type that I usually use.
 JS>>
 JS>>     I have SCSI here but don't currently have the controller
 JS>> enabled. About 80G worth at 10k rpm.

 AI> That looks good, the cost and small size of scsi is what has kept me
 AI> from using them. Great if you need speed (a server I guess) and can
 AI> live with the capacity.

 AI> I don't think I'll be buying any more IDE drives.. :)

 JS>>     One thing I noticed too is that Linux would not install
 JS>> correctly on a mirrored boot drive. They work ok with linux if
 JS>> they are not used to boot from.

 AI> A mirrored boot drive? I've never done any thing but install to a disk
 AI> in the actuall machine. What is a mirrored boot drive?


     The boot drive consistes of two identical (Prefered) hard drives. Data
is written/read to both drives. Each drive is a mirror of the other. If one
drive goes bad the other will continue on. The primary use of mirrored
drives is data integrity and drive/system uptime. I also have several
striped drives
in another machine. There I have two drives that the OS looks at as one
large drive. Striping helps with drive speed but does have a large potential
problem. If either of the striped drives goes bad all data on both drives is
lost.


 AI>  Ttyl :-),
 AI>          Al

 AI> ... A pessimist is never disappointed............

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Jeff

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