[SATLUG] Software RAID over USB 2.0

[David Kowis]

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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.

As long as it's still faster than the LAN connection (100mb in ideal
conditions) it's good enough ;)

Benchmarks would be interesting....

> 
> On 9/2/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have an nslu2 running debian etch (ARM processor).  It has two USB
>> 2.0 ports.  If I were to hang four USB hard drives off a hub and set
>> up a RAID5 array, would there be  major performance degradation?
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