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tomfan   11-16-2009 at 06:10:42 AM

I was wondering...

1. Would it be possible to build on board RAID onto a Std HDD?

2. If so, could it be possible to use this RAID to strip or mirror (not much point if the whole disk fails) platters inside a HDD. Surely this would be useful from a performance point of view.

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Bronze Storage badge r_manic   11-16-2009 at 08:00:41 AM
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Well, in the way you talk about it, such an arrangement already exists on the platters of contemporary hard disks. Data is spread across multiple platters.

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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   11-16-2009 at 03:03:02 PM
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Striping on partitions of a single disk you mean? Yeah it'll be one big performance gangbang; seeking for every 128KiB (stripesize). Try it and you'll be amazed how slow HDDs really are. :D

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