[rescue] Sun Blade 100 Question - IDE

[Big Endian]

>  > there is no reason why he can't do raid on the SB100, and he doesn't need a
>>  PCI RAID card to do it either.
>>
>
>Absolutely right - but his question was about hardware RAID - not
>software.  If he wants to do software RAID - that's easy, but it still
>shouldn't create a performance hit AFAIK.

The issue is the IDE bus config.  If you have two devices on an IDE 
channel, you get a significant performance hit on that bus.  I've 
seen numbers up to a 40% hit if you have two hard disks on the same 
bus.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confPerformance-c.html
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=1237&p=1

daniel
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