W2K Software RAID Q.

[Magicthyse]

A Q regarding an HP Netserver E800 with a 933Mhz PIII processor. It's one of my servers at home, and I use it mainly for storing MP3's, my own projects, etc. Bog-standard hardware spec otherwise, but I'm thinking about adding another two drives.

Currently I'm running drive mirroring using W2K with two 36Gb drives. The performance is acceptable. What would happen though if I added another two 36Gb drives to the same SCSI chain and initiated another software mirror set? Would performance degrade hugely?

 

[Adul]

shouldnt degrade to much. i would go ahead and try it

 

[Timothy]

Try to keep the same SCSI type or better (Ultra/Ultra Wide/U2/U160). Shouldn't slow it dow at all otherwise. That's what nice about SCSI.