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From: Francois Barre <francois.barre@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Raid on USB2 ?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:03:42 +0100
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2006/2/17, Ken Walker <ken.walker@manchester.ac.uk>:
> Anybody tried a Raid1 or Raid5 on USB2.
>
> If so did it crawl or was it usable ?
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> Many thanks
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> Ken :o)
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Well... Let's say... Good luck.
I am experimenting raid1 and raid5 over firewire, which is by far much
more stable (in terms of bandwidth) than usb2. According to the tests
I made, benchmarking usb2 and firewire makes usb2 dangerous to use :
connection hangs, bus collision is somewhat hasardous, bandwidth is
not really granted.
Technically, it is really possible : you will have your usb2 drives
accessible as scsi drives, put your raid on them, test them. But
sincerely, good luck.

Regards,