[X4U] Ext FW Drives in Multiple Mirrored RAIDs Question

[Christopher Collins]

I don't know the answer to your question per se, but I wonder why you  
would not remove the drives from their cases and put as many as  
possible inside the case?

 From memory, there are 3 ATA buses inside, so 6 drives should be able  
to be fitted internally (with a bit of work on brackets).

This would be much faster, and much neater!

cjc

On 24/07/2008, at 3:03 AM, Thomas Bulat wrote:

> Hi,
> I wanted to use my old Quicksilver G4 (using Tiger X.4.11) as a data
> server with a collection of 3 or 4 Mirrored Arrays using external
> Firewire Drives. Right now I have 8 segate drives in 4 matched pairs.
>
> I had been using these daisy chained, but I just read that it's best  
> to
> put the drives on different buses to speed up performance. So that  
> leads
> me to this thought: would a PCI Firewire Card provide separate "buses"
> and if so can someone please make a recommendation. Or if you have a
> better idea, I'd like to know.
>
> Thanks, and so long for now, TOM