Re: Pathetic SATA performance
On 2007-02-02 07:56 -0000, Pete Clarke wrote:
> >I'd still prefer to have all my RAID drives be the same manufacturer
> >+ model. Maybe that's just an ingrained habit I picked up in the
> >1990s.
>
> Indeed ... I thought it would be better to have all the same, as
> I remember different brands of drive sometimes had
> incompatibilities (WD and Maxtor spring to mind).
I don't think that would be an issue with SATA since there is no
shared bus.
> Also, as it defaults to the smallest size, having all drives the
> same means you don't lose any more space than the parity drive.
Disk sizes are rather uniform these days. As far as I can tell
IBM/Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital have the same
size (200 GB = 24321 cylinders, 250 GB = 30401 cylinders, 500 GB =
60801 cylinders). The only exception is Maxtor which is always a
little bigger (250 GB = 30515 cylinders).
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