[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

[Andy Farnsworth]

John Hearns wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 10:39 +0000, Russell Howe wrote:
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>>I saw a nice little feature on some SCA drives I have. They have a
>>little connector which you can daisy-chain to other drives. The drives
>>you've chained together will then synchronise their spindles, 
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>Would be fun to try this out. With enough drives, I just bet there is
>a data access pattern which makes the rack fall over.
>(conservation of amgular momentum and all that)
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They won't fall over, not with all the gyroscopic effect from the 
spinning platters :) On an interesting note, the old very large hard 
drive units used to walk across the "room" of Navy ships whenever the 
ship would change course.

Andy
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