[ale] Build-yer-own NAS server

Wed Jun 7 11:24:32 EDT 2006

On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:17:57 -0400 Jim wrote:
JP> I have 4x300MB drives (3 active, 1 spare) in a R5 
JP> config which yields me ~558MB of usable disk space.  I'm using a 
JP> HighPoint RocketRaid 1640 controller (got it cheap at MicroCenter), 
JP> which I highly recommend.

Are you using it in Linux, or Windows? If Linux, what driver are you using? I
have one too, and I get pretty bad performance using the built-in linux
drivers (measured using hdparm -t). I get better numbers on my IDE drives.