[ale] Build-yer-own NAS server

[Jim Popovitch]

Robert Story wrote:
> 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.

That system is all XP.  It must be a Linux driver thing cause we 
read/write GB sized files with no issues.

-Jim P.