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PogoLinux RAID Workstation

Issue 86

From Issue #86
June 2001

Jun 01, 2001  By Choong Ng
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For this review, PogoLinux sent me one of their new RAID workstations, the PogoLinux Velocity.
The Bottom Line

For many users' purposes, a RAID 0 system will provide less performance benefit than spending the equivalent money on getting a single fast hard drive, faster processor, more RAM or a faster motherboard. The price difference between PogoLinux's Velocity workstation and a similarly configured workstation without RAID, such as PogoLinux's Altura workstation, is about $300 if you still buy another 45GB IBM hard drive. For $300 you can buy a 1.2GHz Athlon (instead of 1.0), an extra 256MB of RAM (or an extra 512MB if you stretch it to $370) or a 64MB GeForce2 GTS (instead of the included 32MB MX). On the other hand, if you really need the maximum throughput for working with large files or the reliability of a RAID 1 configuration, the RAID system is definitely the way to go.

The Good/The Bad

Choong Ng is the product reviewer at Linux Journal and a teriyaki connoisseur.

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