From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 22 9: 6:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.outblaze.com (proxy.outblaze.com [202.77.223.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1831237B43E for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 62826 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2000 16:06:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yusufg.portal2.com) (202.77.181.217) by proxy.outblaze.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2000 16:06:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 28727 invoked by uid 500); 22 Aug 2000 16:06:15 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:06:15 +0800 From: Yusuf Goolamabbas To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RAID-0 over 2 disks or one single disk Message-ID: <20000823000615.A28706@outblaze.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I am looking at setting up a relatively cheap/fast box and I wanted to know whether it makes more sense buying 2 15GB IBM 75GXP drives striped RAID-0 via a 3ware 6200 controller or just buy one 30GB IBM 75GXP The 15GB IBM 75GXP is approx $100 whereas the 30GB is approx $150. The 3ware should be approx be around $150. Would appreciate your thoughts on this ? Is there some cutover point at which RAID-0 gets better than a single drive ? Regards, Yusuf -- Yusuf Goolamabbas yusufg@outblaze.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message