I am tired of my computer being so slow so have finally decided to build a new computer. I am thinking about building a real fast system, in the hope that it will keep up with technology for a while. I obviously need to consider my motherboard 1st. I want to buy a motherboard that supports hardware duplexing as below.
I want to set up Raid 1 using two 10,000 or 15,000 rpm serial hard drives or maybe SCSI
Is it common to be able to buy a mother board that supports hard ware duplexing?
The shops say they are readily available but considering what it says below I think they are taking it too casually. I asked one shop for example and he said yes this motherboard definitly supports hardware duplexing, I think!
They dont seem to be sure.
These are the two motherboards that they have reccommended so far. Asus P4 F800D or the Asustek P4V800-X
Is any one able to offer any advice on this matter?
"Duplexing is superior to mirroring in terms of availability because it provides the same protection against drive failure that mirroring does, but also protects against the failure of either of the controllers. It also costs more than mirroring because you are duplicating more hardware. Duplexing is one option when implementing RAID 1 (though most people think of RAID 1 as only being mirroring, and certainly, mirroring is much more commonly implemented than duplexing.)"
"Since hardware RAID is typically set up under the assumption that the RAID controller will handle all the drives in the array, duplexing is not supported as an option in most PC hardware RAID solutions--even fairly high-end ones. Duplexing is more often found in software RAID solutions managed by the operating system, where the operating system is running the RAID implementation at a high level and can easily split the data between the host adapters. (There are hardware RAID duplexing solutions but usually only on very expensive external RAID boxes.)"
I want to set up Raid 1 using two 10,000 or 15,000 rpm serial hard drives or maybe SCSI
Is it common to be able to buy a mother board that supports hard ware duplexing?
The shops say they are readily available but considering what it says below I think they are taking it too casually. I asked one shop for example and he said yes this motherboard definitly supports hardware duplexing, I think!
They dont seem to be sure.
These are the two motherboards that they have reccommended so far. Asus P4 F800D or the Asustek P4V800-X
Is any one able to offer any advice on this matter?
"Duplexing is superior to mirroring in terms of availability because it provides the same protection against drive failure that mirroring does, but also protects against the failure of either of the controllers. It also costs more than mirroring because you are duplicating more hardware. Duplexing is one option when implementing RAID 1 (though most people think of RAID 1 as only being mirroring, and certainly, mirroring is much more commonly implemented than duplexing.)"
"Since hardware RAID is typically set up under the assumption that the RAID controller will handle all the drives in the array, duplexing is not supported as an option in most PC hardware RAID solutions--even fairly high-end ones. Duplexing is more often found in software RAID solutions managed by the operating system, where the operating system is running the RAID implementation at a high level and can easily split the data between the host adapters. (There are hardware RAID duplexing solutions but usually only on very expensive external RAID boxes.)"