Raptor 2.0 raid... will it work??????

[Caffinehog]

Well, the second version of the raptor is supposed to have the drive reorder read requests to speed up the rate at which the data can be read. This, of course, will help a single drive. But will this mess up raid? I mean, what if one drive sends one thing, but the other drive has decided, on it's own, to read something else?

Any storage gurus have insight into this?

[XWRed1]

It won't.

Scsi has been doing this for years.

All the drive does is reorder commands that have been issued to it, it doesn't decide to send things back to the controller without being asked. What it does read on its own is extra data to fill up the cache, and half the data in a drive's cache *should* be wasted in a stripe because the controller is asking the other drive for that data.

[Caffinehog]

Hey, thanks.