I figure that someone on this list might be able to save me some time in
trial/error.
I'm looking to create a small (3-disk) raid-5 array. Each disk will
probably
be a 9 or 18gb drive. This is for a small news/messaging server. I'm
looking
for a cost/performance solution that will give me high random I/O.
I know that cheetahs are supposed to be very fast, I've only had experience
with older barracuda (ST15150W's) drives though in this type of situation.
With my old drives under Bonnie I get around 175 random seeks/sec. In
order to be usable I am looking to reach 250-300 random seeks/sec. Does
anyone
have any figures on drives that might be able to do this? If I can avoid
paying
through the nose for the cheetahs, and instead of the newer barracuda's can
do this it would save several hundred bucks.
Steve
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