On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:47:30AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote: > quick question to anyone who has the interest to answer: We > ordered a NAS, raid 5 system based on 3ware dual opteron > (1.8Ghz) boxes running RH7.3 and CyberNAS software. We ordered > 20 SATA 250GB drives with 16MB caches for it. What we got was > 20 SATA 250GB drives with 8MB caches.
http://www.accelertech.com/products/nas/cybernas/cn_amd420a.php The specs say 1 8-port card. Are you running multiple 3ware cards or using software RAID for the remaining 12 disks? > And we're trying to figure out if the impact on throughput is > worth several months of waiting for the other drives to come > in, and possibly having to pay out a bit more money. You can try installing the disks anyway and running benchmarks to see if the numbers are good enough. -Vince
