Re: RAID array for home

"Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But I won't use RAID for the reasons given here...to messy ..even less
secure..
not really any speed improvement...cost n complexity.

It doesn't cost anything, apart from the cost of the drives, when you are
using onboard controllers, and RAID-0 certainly makes my computer faster.


I'm thinking why can't there be an hardware adapter which we would plug
the
motherboard SATA cable into, the other side would plug into 2 or more
Hard drives.
This would look to the main computer & O/S like a single fast drive.

That is what onboard RAID essentially is, apart from the messy cabling.


Or the manufacture of 2 (or more) basically standard drives into a single
block unit
which the user would plug a single cable into & regard as a single
componant.

Why? All that would do is move the controller into this contraption, which
will cost a massive amount due to the economies of scale, and supply and
demand.


After all the whole IDE / SATA /PATA design uses vast amounts of control
circuitry
on the drive itself & various tactics n tricks to disguise the reality of
the hardware
into a form we Love n Know ..
Must be room & opportunities for more development in the on-Hard-Disc
control electronics.

What is the point of making the on-drive circuitry more complex and
expensive when most people would not use it?

ss.


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