OHNO!!
That is *definitely* the wrong way to install a brace of RAID drives. A 2 drive array should *always* be installed one drive/cable and with each drive set up as a MASTER.
And here's more: they should only be connected to the END connectinons on those cables. The cables should also be 80 conductor ATA66/100 cables ONLY, and not the el-cheapo grey cables you can by for a dime a dozen.
The older 40 conductor cables are only good up to ATA33. Newer drives will sense the absense of the new cables and slow down to match the cable they're on.
For >2 drives I strongly suggest a Promise TX4 because it gives each drive a MASTER channel...4 in total. This improves throughput significantly when using 3 or 4 drives in the array.
"Normal" RAID controllers can take 4 drives, but they are connected in MASTER/SLAVE pairs. This cuts throuput since only one can be doing a read or write operation on each channel at a time.
Dr. Mordrid
That is *definitely* the wrong way to install a brace of RAID drives. A 2 drive array should *always* be installed one drive/cable and with each drive set up as a MASTER.
And here's more: they should only be connected to the END connectinons on those cables. The cables should also be 80 conductor ATA66/100 cables ONLY, and not the el-cheapo grey cables you can by for a dime a dozen.
The older 40 conductor cables are only good up to ATA33. Newer drives will sense the absense of the new cables and slow down to match the cable they're on.
For >2 drives I strongly suggest a Promise TX4 because it gives each drive a MASTER channel...4 in total. This improves throughput significantly when using 3 or 4 drives in the array.
"Normal" RAID controllers can take 4 drives, but they are connected in MASTER/SLAVE pairs. This cuts throuput since only one can be doing a read or write operation on each channel at a time.
Dr. Mordrid
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