In production I have a 9550SX-16ML with 500GB Seagates with 8xR5 and 8xR10 and the R5 volume performance is exponentially higher than an 8506-8 in R5 with the same drives when used in typical file-server usage on windows.
The 8605-8 with 8x250GB WD2500JB drives in R5 under Centos 4 has approx 10-12% less throughput performance on a g-E network running a Samba server than the same system running Windows but it's multiple-hit performance seems on par with the Windows with little perceivable difference. For my personal OF System at home, I have a 7506-12 (purchased on eBay for $219 shipped) with 11x200GB Segates (I tried all 12 originally but the card only supports volumes up to 2TB so now the 12th is a hot spare) and performance seems on par with the 8506-8 system. In general, the 3ware cards don't seem super quick, but they certainly are very solid. The 9550SX series is a vast improvement over previous cards in a multi-client environment. All these systems, both windows and linux, use a 36GB partition on the R5 volume as boot. Windows required loading a driver on install while none of the Linux 2.6-based OS's needed any manual driver tweaking. -=dave > From: "a.gatta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:22:24 +0200 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [OF-users] Suggestion 3ware Raid Controller > > Dear list, > could someone suggest me a 3ware Raid controller supported under openfiler ? > > I saw that both 3ware 8506-4LP and 9500S-4LP are supported but I am > searching for someone that could tell me his/her "real" experience. > > Regards > > _______________________________________________ > Openfiler-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users > _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
