RE: No go on the 3TB Raid



-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Andrade [mailto:sdnick484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: Friday, June 29, 2007 12:55 AM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: No go on the 3TB Raid
Subject: Re: No go on the 3TB Raid

Tom Scales wrote:
As some may remember, I spent the last few days moving data off of
3TB
of disk in hopes of recombining them into on 3Tb Raid0 array.

Dell released the new drivers that purport to support larger arrays,
at
least with Vista (which I installed).

Well, the project was a failure.

It turns out Dell released the drivers, but NOT the ROM update.
Intel
doesn't offer it directly, so I am at the mercy of Dell.

I have no faith they will ever release it.

So, back to a pair of 1.5Tb arrays.

The upside is that moving everything off and back did a nice job of
defragging both arrays. Moving files between the two is light years
faster than before. It may also have to do with which drives are in
which array, but I just picked them at random.

Tom

Tom,

I didn't follow the initial thread, so I'm not sure if you're shooting
for capacity or performance, but if it's capacity did you look into
the
drobo (http://www.drobo.com/)? I've heard good things about it, but
it's not truly a RAID solution (it's a like a redundant JBOD),
although
neither is "RAID-0" considering it's not Redundant. With four 1TB
drives, you get 2.7TB available for data as well as the ability to hot
swap drives and preserve data (similar to RAID5).

The word on the HTPC forums that I've read is that the Drobo performance
is inadequate. I don't recall the details but something about dropouts
in performance. Pricey too!

Really I just wanted my Dimension 9200 to do what it should. I can
always take the two arrays and combine them with XP, but then I have a
hardware layer AND a software layer.

TOm

.

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