* Jeff Flowers <jeffrey@jeffreyf.net> [020618 18:47]:
> > >   1) The smallest component will be the limiting factor on the size of
> the
> > > RAID set.
> > >   2) There may be detrimental performance implications to mixing disks
> of
> > > different speeds.
> >
> > That's fine -  I'm nursing an old SS4 with twin 2Gb SCSIs,
> > so it's not going to be setting any speed records anyway - just a
> > sacrificial lamb until I get my head round how RF works, then
> > I'll try it on my main servers.
> 
> You just tweaked my interest with this last statement. I had assumed that
> you would need a special RAID card in order to make use of RAIDframe. So can
> I use RAIDframe on any kind of SCSI or IDE interface, provided I have two or
> more disks?

Yeah, RAIDframe is software RAID, like vinum on FreeBSD
(unless I've completely missed the point).

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