USB/Firewire RAID?

[kaltag]

Just curious, is it possible to setup some sort of software RAID using two or more firewire or USB harddrives? If it's been done what kind of performance did it yield? Just thought of this a little bit ago :D

[Stedeman]

I have thought about this many times (I have had at times 2 matched 120GB in USB cases but now down to 1 160GB) but I never tried it. I had always thought it would cause a problem because the USB re assignees the drives a new tag each time its turned on. On a similar note I once found a USB RAID adapter someone built but I can't seem to find it anymore

[K1ll1nT1m3]

Correct me if im wrong, but the drive would have to be a IEEE 1394.B to make that worth while. A drive using IEEE1394.A would not even be close to the burst transfer of a ATA100. Even though FireWire is Isochronus, isnt it still a single bit data transfer? Like I said, correct me if im wrong, but I havent seen to many FireWires that can come close to a ATA100. I wanted to try it too.

Im probably totaly wrong here. I cant find my data on FireWire, but im pretty sure the transfer was no were near ATA100.

[kaltag]

No firewire isn't even close to ATA 100, it's 400Mbit which works out to about 50Mbytes/sec so basically half of ATA100