[geeks] Recommendations for Home-Use RAID

[Jonathan Katz]

I wonder if it is possible to take the system apart? Many boxes like that
use commodity hardware under the covers... the solution may be to replace
some kind of DIMM?

On 8/9/07, J. Alexander Jacocks <jjacocks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a Yellow Machine RAID (http://yellowmachine.com, though the
> company's
> out of business) that I store all my archived data on.  Right now, it has
> 4
> 500gb PATA disks in it, and is running RAID-5.
>
> The YM works, and is reliable, but has several items that are annoying:
> 1) write speed is abominable
> 2) security controls are lacking
> 3) user interface is poor, and deadly slow, to boot
>
> So, I'm looking for suggestions for a replacement device, or setup.  If
> possible, I'd prefer to re-use the PATA disks that I have (I have a ton of
> 250gb and 500gb disks), and I'd like to significantly improve my write
> performance.
>
> Any experiences/suggestions?  I know the YM's lack of write performance is
> due to lack of RAID-5 cache, combined with slow CPU.
>
> Thanks!
>
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