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Title: URD Universal Raid Device for amigaOS
Post by: lionstorm on January 19, 2004, 02:30:43 PM
URD Universal Raid Device is a software RAID for AmigaOS m6820-60 with MUI interface.


Requirements :
Hardware
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  - Amiga system or emulation
  - m68020-60 processor
  - 2 mb RAM
  - some Harddrives ;)
Software
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  - AmigaOS v3.x
  - MUI 3.8

Get version 0.1beta here http://member.ycn.com/~hausrup/index.html

Title: Anyone benchmarked URD ?
Post by: Sparky on January 19, 2004, 07:32:24 PM
That's a nice bit of software ... can't say if it works or not as I don't have an amiga at the moment :-)

I would like to know if anyone has some performance figures though.  Be interesting to see how much of a performance hit there is with mirroring and what the throughput is with striping plus combinations of the above.
And how well does it handle a drive failure in a RAID-1 configuration ?  You get a big warning, sirens etc ?

Good move though, if the Amiga wants back into the video world it's going to need this otherwise people will have to fork out for hardware solutions.

Oh yes, forgot to ask about the MorphOS port ?  As that's the route I'm off when buying a nexgen Amiga.
Title: Re: Anyone benchmarked URD ?
Post by: jeffimix on January 19, 2004, 10:14:47 PM
Nifty, although I only use one harddisk in my miggy....
Title: Re: URD Universal Raid Device for amigaOS
Post by: Doobrey on January 19, 2004, 10:56:29 PM
Nice work.. now how many MP3`s could I hold on a 2Tb array  ;-)
Title: Re: URD Universal Raid Device for amigaOS
Post by: Sparky on January 20, 2004, 12:36:41 AM
If you assumed say 3Mb per MP3 about 666666666 :-)

Now how many on our 280Tb SAN ;-)
Title: Re: URD Universal Raid Device for amigaOS
Post by: Varthall on January 20, 2004, 02:15:32 PM
Urd? It's about THIS Urd?  :-P

Varthall

(http://varthall.ccni.it/misc/Urd2.jpg)