> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 22 21:37:37 2000
>
> Hi, im just wondering has anyone really explored the performance
> limitations of linux raid ?
>
> Recognising ones limitations is the first step to overcomming them.
>
> Ive found that relative performance increases are better with less
> drives.
>
> Ive been using raid for a year or so, ive never managed to get a 4-way
> ide raid working efficiently (no timeouts), 2.3.99pre6pre5 is the best
> ive had though.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on where the bottleneck is, or orther
> experiences with raid limitations ?
I've not had any real problems using striped sets of SCSI drives as
RAID 0 and RAID 5. You're always going to get rather crappy performance
with lots of IDE drives unless you have only 1 drive per channel. By
the time you buy that many controllers, the cost is pretty much a
wash with SCSI.
Cheers,
C
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Christopher Mauritz
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