On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Bokhan Artem <APTEM@xxxxxx> wrote: > I have particular fast, simple and cheap controller(s) (MV88SX6081 8-port > SATA II PCI-X) with a bunch of disks w/o sw/hw raid. > I need to return an error to application ASAP if media error detected. > My thought was that if speed is more important than reliability in your case, then you could buy a "Enterprise" version hard drive and eliminate the time it takes the drive to internally do retries. ie. The concept for which Enterprise drives exist is raid, but that does not mean you have to use them that way. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
