Re: RAID array for home

The Home System RAID or not to RAID questions comes around from time to
time.
It seems there are increasing number of people using it....nearly always in
the
hope of extra speed...

I'm getting increasingly aware of the standard single SATA / PATA 7200 rpm
drives
as the limiting factor in ever faster CPU & memory, modern machines .
But I won't use RAID for the reasons given here...to messy ..even less
secure..
not really any speed improvement...cost n complexity.

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.

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.

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.
(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(") mouse (Oh sigh ! solid state drives seem sooo far away)


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