[SATLUG] Software RAID over USB 2.0

[Jeremy Mann]

On 9/3/07, David Kowis <dkowis at shlrm.org> wrote:
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> Jonathan Hull wrote:
> > I believe all the USB ports on most systems share bandwidth over the
> > USB bus (might be wrong), thus it would probably not work too well.
> > Maybe if you had a USB drive, a firewire drive, and an eSATA it would
> > work better... heh. Better off getting a 4 port SATA controller and 4
> > cheap SATA (or eSATA) and doing that.
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> As long as it's still faster than the LAN connection (100mb in ideal
> conditions) it's good enough ;)
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> Benchmarks would be interesting....

I have an NSLU2 and have never, never seen 100mbit from the slug.
Maybe if you do the overclocking tip, but the most I've seen from my
OpenSlug is 5 MB/s.

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