Zero Channel Raid

[Ruan Kendall]

I was rather hoping to be able to boot from a RAID5 array, giving me a
safety net in case of disk failure but still giving me effectively 3
disks worth of storage space. Using two RAID1 arrays would be an
alternative, but that would mean having less space available.

I am uncertain of the perfomance penalties of the ZCR/RAIDIOS setup,
though the press releases (but the vendors, naturally) imply that it
isn't too serious. As for saturating the PCI bus, I have no immediate
use for it, nor do I envisage needing it at any time in the near
future.

  - Ruan

On 11/29/05, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at tensor.3miasto.net> wrote:
> > raid card for my Gigabyte SR125E machine. This sort of card does not
> > appear to be very widespread, and I have only managed to track down 3
> > candidates;
> >
> > Adaptec 2020ZCR
> > Intel SRCZCRX
> > LSI 320-0X
>
> i don't think is as a good idea, just saturating the bus user to put data
> back and forth. software RAID will work better, and cheaper.
>