> The ONLY reason that I can think of to use round cables would be for > looks. From a performance or reliability standpoint, they are a waste of > money. I routinely build systems with dual 8-channel IDE RAID cards > (3Ware 7500-8) and 16 disks, and ONLY use flat cables. I use rounded cables in my case for a few reasons: - The distance between my promise and my drives is small yet the promise cables are long, the rounded cables I have are 12" long and fit very neatly - The promise cables had two IDE connectors but I only wanted to put one drive per channel; the rounded cables are single cables - Air flow; because of my small casing the flat promise cables were contricting the airflow quite a bit, the rounded less - flexibility; I found the flat cables hard to bend in to place whereas the round cables you could twist easily I've added a link which should make it clear that rounded cables in my case are a benefit to me. What I was worried about was that they could be inferior quality and thus be a factor in my raid performance. http://www.datzegik.com/DSC00056.JPG - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
