shaggy8675

Good to hear everything seems to work out. Sorry i didn't respond earlier, but it's my holliday hehe Let me know if you get it running ok, and if you got problems running ATTO bench contact me, it's verry simple. ( don't forget to set it at 32MB, and it's ok ) Ohh, ps. Indeed this function is a piece of code identical to the server versions of windows wich does have standard raid 1 and 5. The hack, just let's windows XP think, it's Windows Server... Nothing fancy about it, just a small change. Since much of the source code is identical... I know real hardware raid is much better, but you can't get it cheaper than this. Most people don't have the money for real hardware raid like a 400mhz, 1Gb 3Ware card... But then again, most people use just standart Mainboards, wich do not go over the 133 or 150Mb/sec barrier of their board ( ATA S-ATA etc. ) To get the best out of that you need PCI-X 133 Mainboards, but that's to expensieve for most normal users. When using raid for speed get 2 fast hdd's like the raptors or Maxtor Plus series, raid0 and you will get your mainboard full at around 120mb/sec it won't go anny faster no matter how expensieve your hardware card is... I still use software raid on my new Mainboard, only now the S-ATA chips all have raid functions.... so i use them because the setup is so verry easy. ( onboard chips are also software raid...Promise, Via..all S-ATA/ATA chips aboard is Software raid ) But a cheap a** server for music, internet etc. HACK IT Thanks for the nice replies, ( post them in my guestbook hehe ) Take care for now. Shaggy, www.rvandesanden.tk www.software-raid.tk www.motorbike-forum.com and much much more...

But than he would have 9 useless hdd hehe. If he was to buy bigger or all external disks...would cost more money.

Hy there, and thank you for visiting my Raid Site. The reason there are no raid 5 benchmarks posted on there, is that i don't run raid 5 myself, and i have not recieved anny benchmarks from raid 5 from visitors. I do have some pictures of raid 5 arrays using Softwar-Raid. Check them: But i have to say these are duall athlon SCSI systems using PCI-X, so the bandwith is much higher than either ATA or S-ATA ( max 150MB/sec ( round 120Mb/sec in real life ) It does work, and it's a cheap way for creating safe large storage, instead of buying expensive Hardware Raid cards, wich also can't go over the 150Mb.sec bandwith of normal Mainboards. ( different storry for PCI-X 133 capable boards! ) But the new S-ATA2 with 300Mb/sec and PCI-Express are looking to be the future. SCSI is great but uindeed expensive, but disks like the WD Raptors are great, also the 16MB AX 10 HDD etc. When using them on a good S-ATA2 Mainboard, this should ( in theory ) work wonders. Time will tell. As for the limitations...well as far as i know, there are little. It's just how manny disks you can adress thru your setup manager. As you see in the SCSI pic above 6 is no problem ( all on 1 scsi U320 cable ) That all depends on how your machine has been built/setup, ata/s-ata controller wise. Yes, the setup is slow...verry slow. it needs to create the disk array wich might take hours. And in case of hdd failure, the newly added hdd will also be slow to get setup again. but it will work. Manny people talk about proccesor usage, but with the modern procc, at speeds of 2 to 3 ghz or more what is 3 to 7% Procc usage? No problem at all. Hope this helps a little. Shaggy, www.software-raid.tk