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I know that this doesn't directly address your question, but as inexpensive as drives have become over the past few years, why not run raid 0+1? At least that way you won't lose your entire array because you had a drive go south because it happened to also be the parity drive.
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use an operating system with a decent software RAID implementation (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, OS X) and get PCI Express hardwareĮither way, I would not invest any money in PCI storage hardware. Drives without this kind of firmware will hang for awhile in event of a read failure before reporting back the failure drives with it will report the failure much quicker, allowing the data to be read from another drive. Hard drive compatibility is not a big deal for low-end setups the special "RAID" drives have different firmware that has a lower timeout value when data can't be read. With my current setup, it seems that writing 1 unit of data to the drive requires 1 unit of data to be read for parity recalculation. All RAID operations are performed in the CPU, and this means that lots of data must be transferred over the PCI bus (for parity operations).
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Your "RAID controller" is really just a serial ATA controller with a fancy driver and a BIOS that will boot an OS. It's possible that you are saturating the PCI bus. The actual calculations performed to do RAID5 are relatively simple and will not use a lot of CPU time. CPU usage when running at 2.0GHz (Pentium M) is around 10%. (At maximum write, it is using 120 mbytes/sec total throughput.) I haven't been able to get more than 125 mbytes/sec out of that controller, so I suspect that has something to do with it. I experience read speeds of 120 mbytes/sec and write speeds of 60 mbytes/sec. I use Linux software RAID5, with a 5-drive eSATA enclosure and a PCI Express sil3132 controller.
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See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.Are you using Windows software RAID5? If so, find another solution. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended.
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Features:PCI Specification Revision 2.3 compliant Serial ATA Specification Revision 1.0 compliant Compliant with programming interface for Bus Master IDE Controller, Rev 1.0 4x Internal SATA-I ports Silicon Image SIL 3112 host controller chip Compliant with Serial ATA (SATA) 1.0 specification Supports 66Mhz PCI with 32-bit data Supports programmable and EEPROM, FLASH & EPROM loadable PCI class mode Supports ATAPI devices (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, etc) Integrated SATA Transport, Link Logic & PHY layers 48-Bit sector addressing Virtual DMA Supports 2 Independent SATA-I channels (1.5Gbps) Supports software RAID 0 (striped), RAID 1 (mirror), and RAID 0+1 Supports co-existing RAID set and Non-RAID HDDs Allows HDDs with different sizes to be configured in a RAID set Includes both Non-RAID and RAID drivers and utilities for various ver Condition: Used, Condition: Item that has been used previously. It includes drivers for Windows 98SE / ME / NT4 / XP / Server2003 / Vista / Server2008 / 7 (both 32 and 64-bit where applicable) and for various versions of RedHat, Fedora, and SuSE Linux systems. The card uses the SI元112 chipset and will work in a 32-bit 66 MHz PCI bus. You can have one RAID 0 or 1 setup and two independent SATA drives, two RAID 0 or 1 sets, or a single RAID 0+1 set. The card comes with an optional RAID utility, which lets you configure a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 0+1 setup on two or more of the SATA ports. However, as long as you have an open PCI slot, you can add this adapter card, which gives you 2 SATA-2 (1.5 Gbps) ports, so you can use the newer drives.
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