On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kenneth Cornetet wrote:
> Hardware RAID does not necessarily preclude speed. I put a Mylex extremeraid
> 1164 (32MB cache, 2 channels) in a dual 450MHz P3 connected to 4 18GB 10K
> RPM seagate wide low voltage differential SCSI disks in a raid 5 config and
> got about 22 MB/sec reads and writes as reported by bonnie.
Were you really getting 22MB/s writes (just as fast as reads)? Was the
bonnie test size at least 2x physical memory? Those are encouraging
numbers. I'm looking at building a big file server using more drives and
an extremeraid. I was worried about write performance and wondering if
I'd have to do RAID10 rather than RAID5.
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