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Re: Re: BIG disk at Scan!


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  • Subject: Re: Re: BIG disk at Scan!
  • From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 18:33:17 -0000
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>
>Paul, same motherboard, same controller, running NT4 SP6. I've never
>had any hangs or crashes attributed to the disk controller, nor any
>problems running twin Celerons (which is reputed to be risky). Uptime
>usually measured in weeks, would be longer if the ISDN TA didn't get
>confused so often...
>

Hmm.. It was just my suspicion that it was due to the HPT366 controller.
I've no evidence to support that suspicion, so perhaps it isn't...
(espcially as the NT system disks are wide-SCSI), the HPT366 just runs a
20GB Maxtor which is the main file-sharing disk on my network.


>Bear in mind as well though with the RAID IDE controller that it has
>no on board cache memory, so I wouldn't expect performance
>improvements to be that dramatic.
>
>

Sure. I've actually got a compaq smart-array controller in my
"junk" box,
which has 16MB of battery-backed cache memory, but I can't use it as it
will
only work in a Compaq machine. (tried installing it in a variety of
non-compaq PC's and the array config utility will not see it)

shame.  :-(

Paul G.

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