Firewire Raid

[tawolf]

Hello everyone;

Has anyone had any experience with a firewire raid 0 array as part of a toaster nle?

I have been reading a liitle about it but I am not hardware-wise enough to be certain it will work as a striped volume for my toaster.

Any input will be richly accepted.

TAWOLF

[Faraz]

Firewire is usually slower then IDE, specially Ultra 100 IDE. If you stripe IDE drives togather then you probably will get decent results. SCSI as always is your safest bet!

[johnq]

Windows 2000 does not support FireWire RAID directly, you must buy third party FireWire RAID software. Also, I read the specs from one company that sells FireWire RAID and it stated you needed a separate FireWire channel for each drive if you wanted to get a speed increase as well as an increase in size. I don't know for sure about XP Pro, but I think it doesn't support FireWire RAID either.

john

[lsddigital]

and maxtor 5000DV (firewire)???

Maxtor 5000DV webpage (http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/external/personal_storage_5000/personal_storage_5000dv/index.htm)

can this hard drive external work with VT?... to DV editing????

Hard drive: 3.5 inch ATA with Ultra ATA 133 interface
RPM: 7200
Cache buffer: 2MB for 120GB; 8MB for 160GB and 200GB
Interface: IEEE 1394, i.LINK, and SBP-2 compliant, USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant
Average seek time: ¡Ü 9.4 ms
Sustained transfer rate (maximum):
-USB2 - 34 MB/sec
-FireWire - 40 MB/sec

Bus transfer rate (maximum):
-USB2 - 480 Mb/sec
-FireWire - 400 Mb/sec